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W32/Agobot-DM

Mar 3, 2004 5:42AM PST

Aliases
Backdoor.Agobot.3.gen, W32/Gaobot.worm.jg

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/Agobot-DM is an IRC backdoor Trojan and network worm.
W32/Agobot-DM is capable of spreading to computers on the local network protected by weak passwords.

When first run, W32/Agobot-DM copies itself to the Windows system folder as videol_32.exe and creates the following registry entries to run itself automatically on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run\Video Services = videol_32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
RunServices\Video Services = videol_32.exe

Each time W32/Agobot-DM is run it attempts to connect to a remote IRC server and join a specific channel.


More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotdm.html

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