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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Included in our products from | March 2006 (4.03) |
| Protection available since | 11 January 2006 21:27:23 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 25 January 2006 13:58:13 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Agobot-VE is a worm with backdoor functionality for the Windows platform.
W32/Agobot-VE spreads:
- to other network computers infected with: W32/Sasser and Troj/Optix
- to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: LSASS (MS04-011), RPC-DCOM (MS04-012), WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812), WebDav (MS03-007), UPNP (MS01-059) and Dameware (CAN-2003-1030)
- by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords
W32/Agobot-VE runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels.
When first run W32/Agobot-VE copies itself to <Windows system folder>\animalss.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run animalss.exe on startup:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
animalss
animalss.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
animalss
animalss.exe
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