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Summary
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| Protection available since | 20 May 2004 10:53:24 (GMT) |
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| Detected by | All Sophos products |
Sophos beta program
- Endpoint Security and Control 9.0
- Small business solutions 4.0
Action
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Please follow the instructions for removing worms.
Check your administrator passwords and review network security.
You will also need to edit the following registry entries, if they are present. Please read the warning about editing the registry.
At the taskbar, click Start|Run. Type 'Regedit' and press Return. The registry editor opens.
Before you edit the registry, you should make a backup. On the 'Registry' menu, click 'Export Registry File'. In the 'Export range' panel, click 'All', then save your registry as Backup.
Locate the HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE entries:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Microsoft Update Time=wuam.exe
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
Microsoft Update Time=wuam.exe
and delete them if they exist.
Each user has a registry area named HKEY_USERS\[code number indicating user]\. For each user locate the entry:
HKU\[code number]\Software\Microsoft\Windows\
CurrentVersion\Run\Microsoft Update Time=wuam.exe.
and delete it if it exists.
Close the registry editor and reboot your computer.
More Information
W32/Rbot-M is a worm which attempts to spread to remote network shares.
W32/Rbot-M contains backdoor Trojan functionality, allowing unauthorised
remote access to the infected computer via IRC channels while running in the
background as a service process.
W32/Rbot-M spreads to network shares with weak passwords as a result of the
backdoor Trojan element receiving the appropriate command from a remote user.
When W32/Rbot-M is run it copies itself to the Windows system folder with the
filename wuam.exe and deletes the original copy if that filename was wuam.exe.
In order to run automatically when Windows starts up W32/Rbot-M creates the
following registry entries:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Microsoft Update Time=wuam.exe
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
Microsoft Update Time=wuam.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Microsoft Update Time=wuam.exe.
W32/Rbot-M attempts to contact the host babe.thekiller.biz.
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