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| Protection available since | 8 April 2004 15:50:23 (GMT) |
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| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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Please follow the instructions for removing worms.
Change any data that may have become compromised.
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\IE Processes
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\IE Processes
and remove any reference to any file you deleted.
Close the registry editor.
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W32/SdBot-CN is a network worm and a backdoor Trojan which runs in the background as a service process and allows unauthorised remote access to the computer via IRC channels.
When executed W32/SdBot-CN copies itself to the Windows system folder with the filename nosc32.exe and sets the following registry entries with the path to the copy:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\IE Processes
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\IE Processes
W32/SdBot-CN attempts to copy itself to remote network shares with weak passwords.
As a backdoor W32/SdBot-CN can be used to install and execute programs on your computer, retrieve system information and flood other computers with network packets.
