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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 27 September 2004 11:39:00 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-KT is a member of the W32/Rbot family of worms with backdoor capabilities.
In order to run automatically when Windows starts up the worm copies itself to a randomly named file in the Windows system folder and adds the following registry entries pointing to this file:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
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HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
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HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
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When run the worm attempts to connect to a remote IRC server. This connection is used as a control channel that allows a malicious user access to the infected computer.
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