AddBot


· Overview ·
· Origins ·
· Operation ·
· Detection and Removal ·
· Research ·



Overview

Summary:

A simple Yahoo! room spammer.

Vendor Notes:

from the doc: 'For Yahoo Messenger New protocol 11 Log in your Bot , Creat a list of rooms to Spam. Create your Message...You can use the buttons for Font Colors , Bold, Etc...Message cannot be over 255 Characters for now...Have Fun..... I am assuming all of you know to place the yahoov11.dll in your System folder for 98,ME etc and your System32 Folder fer NT like XP etc....Usually it should work just residing in the folder with the program but if not copy and paste da file to the specified folders depending on OS...u will need to set ur puter to view hidden files to see da yahoov11.dll.....Peace'

Category:

Exploit: A way of breaking into a system. An exploit takes advantage of a weakness in a system in order to hack it. Exploits are the root of the hacker culture. Hackers gain fame by discovering an exploit. Others gain fame by writing scripts for it. Legions of script-kiddies apply the exploit to millions of systems, whether it makes sense or not. Since people make the same mistakes over-and-over, exploits for very different systems start to look very much like each other. Most exploits can be classified under major categories: buffer overflow, directory climbing, defaults, Denial of Service.

Similar Pests:

Exploit

Origins

Author:

Arachnid-X

URL:

http://YahooBooting.com

Date of Origin:

December, 2003

Operation

Storage Required:

  • AddBot: at least 77 KB
  • Detection and Removal

    Automatic Removal:

    PestPatrol detects this.

    PestPatrol removes this.



    Manual Removal:

    Follow these steps to remove AddBot from your machine. Begin by backing up your registry and your system, and/or setting a Restore Point, to prevent trouble if you make a mistake.
    Stop Running Processes:

    Kill these running processes with Task Manager:

    Remove Files:

    Remove these files (if present) with Windows Explorer:

    Research

    File Analyses:

    More Info:

  • AllTheWeb, AltaVista, AOL Search, Ask Jeeves, Google, HotBot, Lycos, LookSmart, MSN, Yahoo!
  • Research By:

  • PestPatrol's Pest Research Center
  • Last Revised:

    April 25, 2005