From; Sophos Alert System: Name: Troj/Ablank-P Aliases: Trojan.Win32.StartPage.uz, StartPage-DU.dll trojan, Trojan.Startpage-227 Type: Trojan Date: 8 April 2005 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the June 2005 (3.94) 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 Trojan from the wild. Information about Troj/Ablank-P can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojablankp.html Troj/Ablank-P is a Trojan for the Windows platform. Troj/Ablank-P is a DLL file that may be dropped by members of the Troj/Ablank family of Trojans. Troj/Ablank-P may display popup advertisements. When first run, Troj/Ablank-P will set the following registry entry in order to run automatically each time a user logs in: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run sp "rundll32 <path to Trojan DLL>,DllInstall" This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/Banker-BY http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbankerby.html Troj/VB-ZD http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojvbzd.html Troj/Orse-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojorsea.html Troj/AdClick-AM http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojadclickam.html Troj/FeutDl-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojfeutdla.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/ablank-p.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
