From; Sophos Alert System: Name: Troj/Psyme-CA Aliases: CHM_PSYME.AG, VBS/Psyme, Trojan-Downloader.VBS.Psyme.q Type: Trojan Date: 29 June 2005 Sophos has issued protection for Troj/Psyme-CA. 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-CA can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymeca.html Troj/Psyme-CA is an HTML-based script which exploits the XMLHTTP and ADODB Stream vulnerabilities associated with Microsoft Internet Explorer to download and run an executable file. On Windows 98 the Trojan will save the downloaded file to C:\qwe.exe, on Windows 2000 the file will be downloaded to C:\Documents and Settings\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startup\qwe.exe, and under Windows 95, ME, NT, and XP the file will be downloaded and saved over Windows Media Player if it exists at any of the following locations: C:\Programmer\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Program\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programme\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programmi\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programfiler\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programas\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Programa1s\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Archivos de programa\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe C:\Program Files\Windows Media Player\wmplayer.exe The Troj/Psyme-CA virus identity file (IDE) includes detection for: W32/Agobot-SY http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotsy.html Troj/Turgen-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojturgena.html Troj/Heles-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojhelesa.html Troj/Dloader-PN http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderpn.html W32/Rbot-AGO http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotago.html Troj/StartPa-GX http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstartpagx.html Troj/Bancban-DK http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbancbandk.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-CA from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/psyme-ca.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