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W32/KWBot-G

Mar 12, 2004 12:21AM PST

Aliases
Worm.Win32.SdBoter.g, W32.Kwbot.Worm

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/KWBot-G is a worm which exploits the users of peer-to-peer networks.
When first executed the worm will copy itself to the Windows system folder as svchost64.exe. It will then create the following registry entry so that the copy is run each time Windows is started:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Run DLL = svchost64.exe


More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32kwbotg.html

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