From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Francette-Q Aliases: Net-Worm.Win32.Francette.q, W32/Kvdbot.worm Type: Win32 worm Date: 1 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 worm from the wild. Information about W32/Francette-Q can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32francetteq.html W32/Francette-Q is network worm with keylogging and backdoor functionality for the Windows platform. W32/Francette-Q attempts to log details from banking applications. W32/Francette-Q contains IRC backdoor functionality, allowing remote intruders unauthorised access to infected computers. W32/Francette-Q spreads by exploiting the RPC-DCOM vulnerability, http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/ms04-012.mspx W32/Francette-Q sets the following registry entry to run itself automatically each time a user logs on: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Microsoft IIS <path to worm> W32/Francette-Q also overwrites the Hosts file, directing access to the following websites to the local computer: banesnet.banesto.es extranet.banesto.es ibank.barclays.co.uk online-business.lloydstsb.co.uk online.lloydstsb.co.uk www.halifax-online.co.uk www.nwolb.com www.ukpersonal.hsbc.co.uk This IDE file also includes detection for: W32/Naatah-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32naatahb.html Troj/Keylog-AF http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojkeylogaf.html W32/Rbot-WS http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotws.html W32/Sdbot-VT http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotvt.html Troj/Antikit-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojantikita.html Troj/StarDial-C http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstardialc.html Troj/LdPinch-AQ http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojldpinchaq.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/france-q.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
