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| How it spreads |
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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
| Characteristics |
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| Included in our products from | December 2004 (3.88) |
| Protection available since | 13 October 2004 08:23:59 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Rbot-MS is a network worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
The worm copies itself to a file named winit.exe in the Windows system folder and creates the following registry entries:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
upddateit = "winit.exe"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
upddateit = "winit.exe"
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
upddateit = "winit.exe"
W32/Rbot-MS 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-MS can be controlled by a remote attacker over IRC channels.
Patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-MS can be obtained from Microsoft at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-011.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-039.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms03-007.mspx
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms01-059.mspx
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