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W32/Agobot-EB

Mar 15, 2004 4:05AM PST

Aliases
Backdoor.Agobot.3.gen, W32/Gaobot.worm.gen.d, W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen

Type
Win32 worm

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

When first run, W32/Agobot-EB copies itself to the Windows system folder as asnclt32.exe and creates the following registry entries to run itself on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run\Configuration Loader = asnclt32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
RunServices\Configuration Loader = asnclt32.exe

More:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agoboteb.html

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