From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Esalone-A Aliases: Trojan.Win32.Delf.ir, W32/Eightsalone.worm Type: Win32 worm Date: 13 March 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 no reports from users affected by this worm. However, we have issued this advisory following enquiries to our support department from customers. Information about W32/Esalone-A can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32esalonea.html W32/Esalone-A is a worm for the Windows platform that spreads by coping itself to the available network drives and by inserting a worm copy into WINZIP and WINRAR archives. Once executed W32/Eightsalone-A copies itself to the Windows folder with the filename daemon.exe, and in order to be able to run automatically when Windows starts up W32/Esalone-A sets the registry entry: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ Daemon "daemon.exe c daemon2.exe" W32/Esalone-A attempts to copy itself as a file called Office_Service.pif to the <Windows>\Start Menu\Programs\inicio folder. W32/Esalone-A copies itself to the root folder of the available network drives with the filename Readme.txt.exe, and attempts to inserts itself into the ZIP and RAR archives using the same filename. W32/Esalone-A may create a number of files upon run including following: Infect.drv Muerte.drv infectate.reg WinZip.reg WinRar.reg This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/IBank-D http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojibankd.html Troj/Multidr-CM http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojmultidrcm.html Troj/QQDragon-D http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqqdragond.html Troj/QQDragon-C http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojqqdragonc.html Troj/Small-DM http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsmalldm.html Troj/Bckdr-CFE http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbckdrcfe.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/esalo-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
