From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Rbot-AGH Type: Win32 worm Date: 23 June 2005 Sophos has issued protection for W32/Rbot-AGH. At the time of writing, Sophos has received a small number of reports of this worm from the wild. Customers using EM Library, Enterprise Console, PureMessage or any of our Sophos small business solutions will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update. Information about W32/Rbot-AGH can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotagh.html W32/Rbot-AGH is a network worm with backdoor functionality for the Windows platform. W32/Rbot-AGH spreads to other network computers by exploiting the buffer overflow vulnerabilites: LSASS and RPC-DCOM and by copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords. The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Rbot-AGH can be obtained from the Microsoft website: MS04-011 MS04-012 W32/Rbot-AGH runs continuously in the background, providing a backdoor server which allows a remote intruder to gain access and control over the computer via IRC channels. When first run W32/Rbot-AGH copies itself to <Windows system folder>\LimeWire.exe. The following registry entries are created to run LimeWire.exe on startup: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Limewire LimeWire.exe HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices Limewire LimeWire.exe The W32/Rbot-AGH virus identity file (IDE) includes detection for: Troj/Zapchas-N http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojzapchasn.html Troj/Ablank-AA http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojablankaa.html W32/Wenper-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32wenperb.html Troj/Dloader-PG http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderpg.html Troj/Sdbot-ZT http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsdbotzt.html Troj/Ssdoor-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojssdoora.html Troj/Hanger-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojhangera.html Customers with 3.xx or lower versions of Sophos Anti-Virus, who are not running EM Library, can manually download the IDE for W32/Rbot-AGH from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/rbot-agh.ide Read about how to use IDE files at http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/363.html *********** MIKE"S REPLY SEPARATOR *********** Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see a sample on my web page http://www3.telus.net/mikebike <mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/worm_removal.htm See my Anti-Virus pages http://virusinfo.hackfix.org/index <virusinfo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> A Technical Support Alliance and OWTA Charter Member
