From; Sophos Alert System: Name: Troj/Psyme-BY Aliases: Trojan-Downloader.JS.Psyme.av Type: Trojan Date: 22 June 2005 Sophos has issued protection for Troj/Psyme-BY. 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/Psyme-BY can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymeby.html Troj/Psyme-BY is a Trojan for the Windows platform. Troj/Psyme-BY uses the ADODB vulnerability to download and execute files from a remote site. The downloaded files have names composed of up to 8 random letters. At the time of writing, the downloaded file is detected as Troj/Agent-EM. Further details about the ADODB vulnerability are available from Microsoft at http://support.microsoft.com/?kbid=870669 The Troj/Psyme-BY virus identity file (IDE) includes detection for: Troj/Agent-EM http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagentem.html Troj/Radnag-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojradnagb.html W32/Mkar-F http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mkarf.html Troj/Flood-EO http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojfloodeo.html W32/Rbot-AGE http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotage.html Troj/Lydra-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojlydrab.html Troj/Dumaru-BM http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdumarubm.html Customers with 3.xx or lower versions of Sophos Anti-Virus, who are not running EM Library, can manually download the IDE for Troj/Psyme-BY from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/psyme-by.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
