From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Francette-K Type: Win32 worm Date: 26 May 2004 A virus identity (IDE) file which provides protection is available now from the Sophos website, and will be incorporated into the July 2004 (3.83) 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. At the time of writing, Sophos has received just one report of this worm from the wild. Information about W32/Francette-K can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32francettek.html Description W32/Francette-K is a backdoor Trojan and a worm that attempts to spread by exploiting vulnerabilties and backdoors left by members of the W32/Mydoom family of worms. W32/Francette-K may spread to vulnerable computers by taking advantage of the DCOM RPC vulnerability (MS03-026). W32/Francette-K allows a malicious user remote access to an infected computer. The worm drops a dll file lol.dll which is used to capture user keystrokes which may be sent to the attackers email account. Lol.dll is detected by Sophos Anti-Virus as W32/Francette-I. W32/Francette-K may connect to an IRC server and provide backdoor access via IRC channels. In order to run automatically when Windows starts up W32/Francette-K creates the following registry entry: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\Microsoft IIS This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/StartPa-DG http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstartpadg.html W32/Sdbot-BT http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotbt.html Troj/Small-JG http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsmalljg.html W32/Rbot-S http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbots.html W32/Agobot-JE http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotje.html W32/Francette-L http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32francettel.html Troj/Multidr-JL http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojmultidrjl.html Troj/Multidr-KM http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojmultidrkm.html W32/Sdbot-IQ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotiq.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/francetk.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
