[virusinfo] Sophos Anti-Virus IDE alert: W32/Agobot-GJ

  • From: "Mike" <mikebike@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: virusinfo@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 27 Apr 2004 13:37:42 -0700


From; Sophos Alert System:

Name: W32/Agobot-GJ
Aliases: Backdoor.Agobot.oi, W32/Gaobot.worm.gen.f, W32.HLLW.Gaobot.gen
Type: Win32 worm
Date: 27 April 2004

A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is
available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated
into the June 2004 (3.82) release of Sophos Anti-Virus.

Customers using Enterprise Manager, PureMessage and any 
of the Sophos small business solutions will be automatically
protected at their next scheduled update.


At the time of writing, Sophos has received just one report of
this worm from the wild.


Information about W32/Agobot-GJ can be found at:
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotgj.html
Description 
W32/Agobot-GJ is a member of the W32/Agobot family of worms for the Windows
platform. 
In order to run automatically when Windows starts up W32/Agobot-GJ copies
itself to the file regsvs.exe in the Windows system folder and creates the
following registry entries pointing to this file: 

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\
Compatibility Service Process = regsvs.exe 

HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\
Compatibility Service Process=regsvs.exe 

W32/Agobot-GJ also allows a malicious user remote access to an infected
computer via the IRC network. 
 
 
Recovery 
Please follow the instructions for removing worms. 

This IDE file also includes detection for:

W32/Agobot-LD
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotld.html
W32/Agobot-LE
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotle.html
W32/Agobot-LF
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotlf.html
W32/Agobot-HA
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotha.html
Troj/Sneif-A
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsneifa.html
Troj/VB-HE
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojvbhe.html
W32/Agobot-GU
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotgu.html
Troj/StartPa-AG
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstartpaag.html
W32/Mydoom-I
http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mydoomi.html

Download the IDE file from:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/agobotgj.ide

Download all the IDE files available for the current version of 
Sophos Anti-Virus in a single compressed file. The file is
available in two formats:

Zip file:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip

Self-extracting file:
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe

Read about how to use IDE files at
http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/using.html

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