From; Sophos Alert System: Name: Troj/Agobot-HZ Type: Trojan Date: 5 May 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. Customers using Enterprise Manager, PureMessage and any of the Sophos small business solutions will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update. At the time of writing, Sophos has received just one report of this Trojan from the wild. Information about Troj/Agobot-HZ can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagobothz.html Description Troj/Agobot-HZ is a backdoor Trojan for the Windows platform. Troj/Agobot-HZ allows a malicious user remote access to an infected computer. In order to run automatically when Windows starts up Troj/Agobot-HZ creates the following registry entries: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\File System Service=wmiprvsc.exe HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\File System Service=wmiprvsc.exe. This IDE file also includes detection for: W32/Sdbot-JZ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotjz.html IRC/Krisworm-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/irckriswormb.html W32/Famus-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32famusb.html Troj/Psyme-T http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymet.html W32/Agobot-OY http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotoy.html W32/Agobot-HI http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobothi.html W32/Francette-I http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32francettei.html W32/Agobot-HJ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobothj.html Troj/Servu-D http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojservud.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/agobothz.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