From; Sophos Alert System: Name: Troj/Badparty-A Type: Trojan Date: 16 April 2004 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the May 2004 (3.81) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. Enterprise Manager and PureMessage customers will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update. At the time of writing, Sophos has received just one report of this Trojan from the wild. Note: Sophos has updated this IDE to include the detection of a minor W32/Netsky-N variant. Information about Troj/Badparty-A can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbadpartya.html Description Troj/Badparty-A displays a message box containing the text 'Press OK to install the party invitation...'. When the user clicks on OK the Trojan deletes the partition table in the master boot sector and the contents of the FAT. The Trojan then attempts to create a new partition table. The Trojan creates the following files, which are all copies of legitimate utilities: ginst0.dll in the Windows temp folder int86_16.dll, int86_32.dll, playme.exe and party.ini in the Windows folder This IDE file also includes detection for: W32/Doomran-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32doomrana.html Troj/BeastDo-O http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbeastdoo.html Troj/LdPinch-BX http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojldpinchbx.html W32/Spybot-DD http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32spybotdd.html W32/Netsky-N http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32netskyn.html Troj/RPCNuke-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojrpcnukea.html W32/Sdbot-GS http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotgs.html W32/SdBot-MZ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotmz.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/badparty.ide Download all the IDE files available for the current version of Sophos Anti-Virus in a single compressed file. The file is available in two formats: Zip file: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.zip Self-extracting file: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ides.exe Read about how to use IDE files at http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/using.html --------------------------------------------------------------------- Mike ~ It is a good day if I learned something new. Editor MikesWhatsNews see a sample on my web page http://www3.telus.net/mikebike <mikeswhatsnews-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> http://www3.telus.net/mikebike/worm_removal.htm See my Anti-Virus pages http://virusinfo.hackfix.org/index <virusinfo-request@xxxxxxxxxxxxx?Subject=subscribe> A Technical Support Alliance and OWTA Charter Member
