From; Sophos Alert System: Name: Troj/Adtoda-A Type: Trojan Date: 10 May 2004 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and is incorporated into the May 2004 (3.81) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. At the time of writing, Sophos has received just one report of this Trojan from the wild. Note: The IDE issued for Troj/Adtoda-A at 11:28 GMT on 2 April also contained detection for Troj/Adtoda-B, Troj/INServ-A, Troj/StartPa-AB, Troj/ByteVeri-G, W32/Agobot-FO, W32/Agobot-JS and W32/Agobot-FP. This IDE has now been updated to enhance detection of W32/Agobot-FP. Information about Troj/Adtoda-A can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojadtodaa.html Description Troj/Adtoda-A is a backdoor Trojan. When first run, Troj/Adtoda-A will display the following two messages: "Setup was not able to continue the installation. An illegal copy of Windows Operating System was detected on this computer. The computer informations is already collect and will be post as this computer name: (name of machine)" "The operating system will not work properly before you get a permission after you complete the penalty! For any detail informations, Please contact the following link: http:\\www.microsoft.com\~msproduct\~watch\~piracy10 \secureID=OS_wiNver_532Fg32_ap12nt04A" After the user clicks "OK" on both of these messages, Troj/Adtoda-A installs itself and activates the payload. This inverts the screen and freezes the machine so that is needs to be rebooted. In order to run automatically when Windows starts up the Trojan creates the file C:\Windows\system\winupd32.exe and the shortcut C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\System Update Service.lnk pointing to it. These files will cause the payload to be run again on system boot. Troj/Adtoda-A also attempts to modify C:\boot.ini to prevent debugging. This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/Adtoda-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojadtodab.html Troj/INServ-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojinserva.html Troj/StartPa-AB http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstartpaab.html Troj/ByteVeri-G http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbyteverig.html W32/Agobot-FO http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotfo.html W32/Agobot-JS http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotjs.html W32/Agobot-FP http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotfp.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/adtoda-a.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"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