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| Affected operating systems | Windows |
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| Included in our products from | February 2006 (4.02) |
| Protection available since | 7 November 2005 04:01:32 (GMT) |
| Last updated | 22 December 2005 19:10:39 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Sdbot-AFB is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Sdbot-AFB spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including: PNP (MS05-039) and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Sdbot-AFB can be obtained from the Microsoft website:
W32/Sdbot-AFB 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/Sdbot-AFB copies itself to <System>\poker3.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run poker3.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Microsoft Windows DLL Services Configuration
poker3.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
Microsoft Windows DLL Services Configuration
poker3.exe
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices
Microsoft Windows DLL Services Configuration
poker3.exe
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