From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Reper-A Aliases: Virus.Win32.Repka.a, WORM_REPER.A, W32.Reper.A, W32/Sautor.worm.gen Type: Win32 worm Date: 6 April 2005 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the May 2005 (3.93) release of Sophos Anti-Virus. Customers using EM Library, PureMessage or any of our Sophos small business solutions will be automatically protected at their next scheduled update. At the time of writing, Sophos has received a small number of reports of this worm from the wild. Information about W32/Reper-A can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32repera.html W32/Reper-A is a Windows worm. When run the worm attempts to copy itself to any logical drives as reper.exe and create or overwrite the file autorun.inf which references the executable such that it is automatically run. W32/Reper-A will also copy itself to the Windows folder as viewer.exe and to the %WINDOWS%\System32 folder as N0TEPAD.exe (the digit zero being used instead of the letter 'O'.) The following registry entry is created by the worm: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run runreper %WINDOWS%\viewer.exe W32/Reper-A also modifies the associated text viewer key from: HKCR\txtfile\shell\open\command %SystemRoot%\system32\NOTEPAD.EXE %1 to (again substituting the letter 'O' in NOTEPAD with the digit zero): HKCR\txtfile\shell\open\command %WINDOWS%\System32\N0TEPAD.EXE %1 The worm will also attempt to terminate regedit.exe, cmd.exe and taskmgr.exe. This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/Bancban-CC http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbancbancc.html W32/Rbot-ZZ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotzz.html Troj/Dloader-LA http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderla.html Troj/Agent-DG http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagentdg.html Troj/Dloader-KZ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderkz.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/reper-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
