From; Sophos Alert System wrote: Name: Troj/LdPinch-L Aliases: Trojan.PSW.LdPinch.ce, PWS-LDPinch, TROJ_LDPINCH.E Type: Trojan Date: 13 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 no reports from users affected by this Trojan. However, we have issued this advisory following enquiries to our support department from customers. Information about Troj/LdPinch-L can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojldpinchl.html Description Troj/LdPinch-L is a password stealing Trojan. Upon execution it collects passwords from the computer and emails them to a remote address. The Trojan moves itself to the Windows folder and sets the following registry entry to auto start: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\SVCHOST = <windows folder>\<Trojan name> On Windows 2000 the Trojan will attempt to connect to a web page. The Trojan also attempts to drop and load a helper DLL (ihook.dll) into the Windows folder which is detected as Troj/Klog-A. This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/Klog-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojkloga.html Troj/StartPa-N http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstartpan.html Troj/KillAV-AF http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojkillavaf.html Troj/KillAV-AG http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojkillavag.html Troj/Bumaf-F http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbumaff.html Troj/Psyme-P http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymep.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ldpinchl.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