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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 2005 (4.00) |
| Protection available since | 14 November 2005 14:33:40 (GMT) |
| Detected by | All Sophos products |
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W32/Spybot-EC is a worm and IRC backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform.
W32/Spybot-EC 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/Spybot-EC copies itself to <System>\calc32.exe.
The following registry entries are created to run calc32.exe on startup:
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce
CALC32
CALC32.EXE
HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run
CALC32
CALC32.EXE
W32/Spybot-EC includes functionality to:
- log keystrokes
- disable system related processes including NETSTAT.EXE, TASKMGR.EXE, MSCONFIG.EXE and REGEDIT.EXE
- download code from the internet
- terminate processes
- setup a HTTP proxy to redirect internet traffic
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