Spyware Information: Backdoor.SDBot.E
This application is a worm. Unlike a virus, whose purpose is both to install itself on as many computers as possible and then perform some (probably damaging) action on them, worms are designed primarily to copy themselves and not to accomplish anything specific once copied. Worms can do a lot of damage to a network or even the Internet if they multiply fast enough, and they could be used by malicious software as a means to spread.
- Size: 169,472 bytes
- Threat level: Medium (more info...)
- Detections: 4 this month: 0
- Author: Unknown
- Appeared: 9/15/2004
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- Method of infection: SDBot scans the network for network shares then tries to break into them with a weak-passwords cracker. It also attempts to spread via IRC.
- Advertising: None.
- Browser degradation: As with any worm, the entire infected computer will experience performance degradation.
- Privacy issues: The controller of SDBot has access to all the files of an infected computer via the IRC client.
- Privacy policy: None.
- Security issues: SDBot opens an IRC client when it runs that allows the controller of SDBot to issue remote commands to the infected computer.
- Stability issues: As with any worm, the entire infected computer may experience crashes or other errors.
Spyware Detection Stats
- Spyware Fingerprints: 91,859
- Detections: 6,792,650
- Detections this Month: 797
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