From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Famus-A Type: Win32 worm 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. Sophos has received several reports of this worm from the wild. Information about W32/Famus-A can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32famusa.html Description W32/Famus-A is a mass mailing worm for the Windows platform that copies itself to the system folder as the file PentagonSecret.xls.exe where the second extension is several whitespace characters after the first in an attempt to disguise itself as a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet file. Copies of the worm will also have a crude Excel icon. W32/Famus-A will make additional copies of itself as Casper9247.exe and Red7324.exe in the Temp folder along with other non malicious files related to the sent emails. Among these will be the file SMTP.OCX which is a freeware SMTP engine used in the mailing of W32/Famus-A to members of the user's address book. W32/Famus-A will send itself to members of the user's Outlook address book attached to an email with the following characteristics: Subject: Que sabe el Pentagono sobreusted (What the Pentagon knows about you) Body: ?Crees que estas a salvo del Pentagono de los E.U? Mira estos datos y te asombraras. Do you believe you are safe from the Pentagon of the E.U? Just look these data and you will be surprised Password: 123 Attachment: PentagonSecret.xls.exe Another email will also be sent to the address segurmatic@xxxxxxxx with the subject line of Reporte. This is likely to be a notification message sent to the worm author. Recovery Please follow the instructions for removing worms This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/Servu-C http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojservuc.html Troj/Delf-BI http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdelfbi.html Troj/Psyme-S http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojpsymes.html Troj/Minit-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojminita.html W32/Sdbot-KL http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotkl.html W32/Agobot-MO http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotmo.html W32/Agobot-MZ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotmz.html Troj/Demifire-F http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdemifiref.html Troj/Nethief-G http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojnethiefg.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/famus-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
