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W32/Agobot-EI

by Marianna Schmudlach Mar 25, 2004 12:07AM PST

Aliases
W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen, Backdoor.Agobot.3.gen

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/Agobot-EI is a worm which spreads via shared folders.
The worm copies itself to smss32.exe in the Windows system folder and adds the following registry entries:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
configuration Loader

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
configuration Loader

On operating systems based on Windows NT the worm will also install itself as a service named a3.

More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotei.html