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W32/Agobot-EH

by Marianna Schmudlach Mar 25, 2004 12:04AM PST

Aliases
W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen

Type
Win32 worm

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

When first run W32/Agobot-EH copies itself to the Windows system folder as wincrt32.exe and creates the following registry entries to run itself on startup:

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run\Video Process = wincrt32.exe

HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
RunServices\Video Process = wincrt32.exe

More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agoboteh.html