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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Included in our products from | November 2004 (3.87) |
| Protection available since | 22 September 2004 09:36:21 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-KI is a network worm and backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Rbot-KI allows a malicious user remote access to an infected computer.
The worm copies itself to a file named winsysengine.exe in the Windows system folder and creates the following registry entries:
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
blah service = winsysengine.exe
HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
blah service = winsysengine.exe
The following registry entries may also be modified:
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole\EnableDCOM
HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa\restrictanonymous
W32/Rbot-KI spreads using a variety of techniques including exploiting weak passwords on computers and SQL servers, exploiting operating system vulnerabilites (including DCOM-RPC, LSASS, WebDAV and UPNP) and using backdoors opened by other worms or Trojans.
W32/Rbot-KI can be controlled by a remote attacker over IRC channels.
Patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-KI can be obtained from Microsoft at:
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-KI can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
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