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Virus Alert: Win32/Rbot.HFE

Win32/Rbot.HFE is an IRC controlled backdoor (or “bot”) that can
be used to gain unauthorized access to a victim’s machine. It can also exhibit worm-like
functionality by exploiting weak passwords on administrative shares and by exploiting many different
software vulnerabilities, as well as backdoors created by other malware. There are many variants of
Rbot, and more are discovered regularly. Rbot is highly configurable.

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