From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Agobot-ZY Aliases: Backdoor.Agobot.ml, W32/Gaobot.worm.gen.k, Win32/Agobot.ML, WORM_AGOBOT.ZM Type: Win32 worm Date: 20 April 2004 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the June 2004 (3.82) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. Enterprise Manager and PureMessage customers will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update. Sophos has received several reports of this worm from the wild. Information about W32/Agobot-ZY can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotzy.html Description W32/Agobot-ZY is a network worm which also allows unauthorised remote access to the computer via IRC channels. When executed W32/Agobot-ZY moves itself to the Windows system folder with the filename smssv.exe and sets the registry entries: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\RFC1156Agent\CurrentVersion\Parameters "TrapPollTimeMilliSecs"=dword:<value> HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices "Audoi Device Loader"="smssv.exe" HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run "Audoi Device Loader"="smssv.exe" Recovery Please follow the instructions for removing worms. This IDE file also includes detection for: W32/Agobot-GI http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotgi.html W32/Agobot-QR http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotqr.html Troj/StartPa-O http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstartpao.html W32/Kwbot-H http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32kwboth.html W32/Bugbear-D http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bugbeard.html Troj/Daemdrop-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdaemdropa.html Troj/Daemrun-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdaemruna.html Troj/Daemoni-P http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdaemonip.html Troj/Dlfprx-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdlfprxa.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/agobotzy.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
