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W32/Agobot-DY

Mar 12, 2004 12:18AM PST

Aliases
W32/Gaobot.worm.gen.d, Win32/Agobot.3.HN, W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen, WORM_AGOBOT.DI, Backdoor.Agobot.3.cd

Type
Win32 worm

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

W32/Agobot-DY copies itself to the Windows system folder as msrun32.exe and creates the following registry entries so that the worm is run when a user logs on to Windows:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Microsoft Config Loader = msrun32.exe


More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotdy.html

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