Thursday, January 22, 2009

Win32.Sbot Trojan

Removing Win32.Sbot
Categories: Trojan,Worm,Backdoor
This category includes a variety of Trojans that damage victim machines or
threaten data integrity, or impair the functioning of the victim machine.
Worms can be classified according to the propagation method they use,
i.e. how they deliver copies of themselves to new victim machines.
Worms can also be classified by installation method, launch method and finally according
to characteristics standard to all malware: polymorphism, stealth etc.

Many of the worms which managed to cause significant outbreaks use more then
one propagation method as well as more than one infection technique.
The methods are listed separately below.
Backdoors are the most dangerous type of Trojans and the most popular.
Backdoors open infected machines to external control via Internet.
Often the backdoor will not be visible in the log of active programs.

Win32.Sbot Also known as:

[Kaspersky]Backdoor.IRCBot.gen,Backdoor.Sbot.12;
[Eset]IRC/SdBot.CIP trojan;
[Panda]Bck/Sbot.C;
[Computer Associates]Win32.Sbot.C,Backdoor/Sbot.12.A!Server

Visible Symptoms:
Files in system folders:
[%SYSTEM%]\syscfg32.exe
[%SYSTEM%]\syscfg32.exe

How to detect Win32.Sbot:

Files:
[%SYSTEM%]\syscfg32.exe
[%SYSTEM%]\syscfg32.exe

Registry Values:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\software\microsoft\windows\currentversion\run

Removing Win32.Sbot:

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