Spyware Information: Backdoor.Agobot-S
This is a back door application. Such software hides on your computer and gives someone else (a hacker or other unauthorized user) access to everything on your computer. The "back door" is generally so large that the unauthorized user will have access to everything -- often times, he can even see what's on your screen and use your computer just as you would. For this reason, these applications represent a very serious security and privacy risk.
- Size: 58,368 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 66 this month: 0
- Author: Unknown
- Others by this author: Various Agobot variants
- Appeared: 10/5/2004
Research
- Method of infection: Agobot attempts to infect computers via IRC and searches for network shares with weak passwords. Agobot also attempts to infect computers via the DCOM RPC and RPC locator vulnerabilities.
- Advertising: None.
- Browser degradation: As with any worm, the entire infected computer will experience performance degradation.
- Privacy issues: Agobot collects system information and registry keys.
- Privacy policy: None.
- Security issues: Agobot attempts to kill processes related to anti-virus and firewall systems.
- Stability issues: As with any worm, the entire infected computer may experience crashes or other errors.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,647
- Detections this Month: 794
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