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W32/Rbot-HN

Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 31 August 2004 13:56:09 (GMT)
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More Information

W32/Rbot-HN is a member of the W32/Rbot family of worms with
backdoor functionality.

These worms allows a malicious user remote access to an infected
computer via the IRC network.

W32/Rbot-HN spreads by scanning computers on the internet for
various vulnerabilities.

In order to run automatically when Windows starts up the Worm
copies itself to the file muamgrd.exe in the Windows system
folder and registers itself as the service process muamgrd.

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