Welkom bij de virusencyclopedie van Panda Security. Sdbot.FAR is
a worm with backdoor characteristics that belongs to the Sdbot
worm family. This family has the following common
characteristics: - It allows hackers to gain remote access to
the affected computer in order to carry out actions that
compromise user confidentiality and impede the tasks performed.
- It uses its own IRC client in order to join an IRC channel and
accept remote control commands, such as launching denial of
service (DoS) attacks against websites. It can also download and
run files on the affected computer. Sdbot.FAR reaches the
computer downloaded by other worm detected as Mops.A. However,
worms belonging to the Sdbot family usually employ any of the
following means of transmission, among others: - Computer
networks: the worm checks if the affected computer belongs to a
network. If so, it attempts to access network shared resources,
using passwords that are typical or easy to guess. Then, it
makes a copy of itself to those shared resou