From; Sophos Alert System: Name: Troj/BagleDl-R Aliases: Email-Worm.Win32.Bagle.bq Type: Trojan Date: 27 June 2005 Sophos has issued protection for Troj/BagleDl-R. At the time of writing, Sophos has received a small number of reports of this Trojan from the wild. Customers using EM Library, Enterprise Console, PureMessage or any of our Sophos small business solutions will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update. Information about Troj/BagleDl-R can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbagledlr.html Troj/BagleDl-R is a downloader Trojan. When run Troj/BagleDl-R copies itself to <System>\winshost.exe and creates the file <System>\wiwshost.exe. This file is also detected by Sophos as Troj/BagleDl-R. Troj/BagleDl-R sets the following registry entries to run itself on user logon: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run winshost.exe <System>\winshost.exe HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run winshost.exe <System>\winshost.exe Troj/BagleDl-R may also run Microsoft Paint program in an attempt to obfuscate itself. Troj/BagleDl-R sets the following registry entries: HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\Alerter Start 00000004 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\SharedAccess Start 00000004 HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Services\wuauserv Start 00000004 Troj/BagleDl-R also overwrites the HOSTS file and creates the following mapping: 127.0.0.1 localhost Customers with 3.xx or lower versions of Sophos Anti-Virus, who are not running EM Library, can manually download the IDE for Troj/BagleDl-R from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/bagdl-r.ide Read about how to use IDE files at http://www.sophos.com/support/knowledgebase/article/363.html *********** MIKE"S REPLY SEPARATOR *********** 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