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W32/Spybot-BR

Mar 4, 2004 1:19AM PST

Aliases
Backdoor.Spyboter.gen, W32/Spybot.worm.gen.b, W32.Spybot.Worm

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/Spybot-BR is a network worm with backdoor Trojan functionality.
W32/Spybot-BR copies itself to WINAMPA.EXE in the Windows system folder and creates entries in the registry at the following locations to run itself on system startup:

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Winampa Agent
HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\Winampa Agent

W32/Spybot-BR attempts to copy itself to the startup folder of attached network drives.


More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32spybotbr.html

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