From; Sophos Alert System: Name: Troj/Bancos-AS Type: Trojan Date: 10 March 2005 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the April 2005 (3.92) 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. Note: The IDE issued for Troj/Bancos-AS at 12:04 GMT on 24 Dec 2004 also contained detection for W32/Rbot-SS, Troj/Loony-R, Troj/Delf-JJ, W32/Sdbot-SN, Troj/Dloader-FD and W32/Tex-A. This IDE has now been updated to enhance detection of Troj/Loony-R. Information about Troj/Bancos-AS can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbancosas.html Troj/Bancos-AS is a password stealing Trojan for the Windows platform. When first run, Troj/Bancos-AS creates the following registry entry in order to run each time a user logs on: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run <filename minus extension> "<full path to Trojan>" The Trojan logs keypresses and steals information from Internet Explorer sessions connected to certain Brazilian banking sites. The collected information is emailed to a remote user. This IDE file also includes detection for: W32/Rbot-SS http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotss.html Troj/Loony-R http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojloonyr.html Troj/Delf-JJ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdelfjj.html W32/Sdbot-SN http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotsn.html Troj/Dloader-FD http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderfd.html W32/Tex-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32texa.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/banco-as.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
