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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Included in our products from | October 2006 (4.10) |
| Protection available since | 22 August 2006 22:39:32 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-FKQ is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-FKQ spreads to weakly protected network shares and to computers vulnerable to the RPC-DCOM, PNP, ASN.1 and MSDTC exploits. For more information about these vulnerabilities see MS04-012 (for the RPC-DCOM exploit), MS05-039 (for the PNP exploit), MS04-007 (for the ASN.1 exploit) and MS05-051 (for the MSDTC exploit).
W32/Rbot-FKQ 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. W32/Rbot-FKQ is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-FKQ spreads to weakly protected network shares and to computers vulnerable to the RPC-DCOM, PNP, ASN.1 and MSDTC exploits. For more information about these vulnerabilities see MS04-012 (for the RPC-DCOM exploit), MS05-039 (for the PNP exploit), MS04-007 (for the ASN.1 exploit) and MS05-051 (for the MSDTC exploit).
W32/Rbot-FKQ 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/Rbot-FKQ copies itself to <System>\ActiveScan.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run ActiveScan.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ActiveScan Antivirus
ActiveScan.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
ActiveScan Antivirus
ActiveScan.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
ActiveScan Antivirus
ActiveScan.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
ActiveScan Antivirus
ActiveScan.exe
Registry entries are set as follows:
HKCU\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
ActiveScan Antivirus
ActiveScan.exe
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa
ActiveScan Antivirus
ActiveScan.exe
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE
ActiveScan Antivirus
ActiveScan.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole
ActiveScan Antivirus
ActiveScan.exe
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