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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Protection available since | 14 March 2005 20:49:38 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Sophos's anti-virus products include proactive detection technology, which can proactively protect against new threats without requiring an update. Sophos customers have been protected against W32/Rbot-XT (detected as W32/Rbot-Fam/Gen) since version 3.85.
W32/Rbot-XT is a worm which attempts to spread to remote network shares. It also contains backdoor functionality, allowing unauthorised remote access to the infected computer via IRC channels while running in the background as a service process.
W32/Rbot-XT spreads to network shares with weak passwords as a result of the backdoor Trojan element receiving the appropriate command from a remote user.
W32/Rbot-XT moves itself to the Windows system folder as veritas.exe and creates entries in the registry at the following locations to run on system startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Veritas Patch
veritas.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
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veritas.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE\
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veritas.exe
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