From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Myfip-K Aliases: WORM_MYFIP.I, W32/Myfip.worm.q Type: Win32 worm Date: 16 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 a small number of reports of this worm from the wild. Information about W32/Myfip-K can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32myfipk.html W32/Myfip-K is a worm that spreads using network shares that are either unprotected or protected only by weak passwords. The worm copies itself to the file kernel32dll.exe in the Windows system folder on the local machine. Copies on network shares can be called worm.txt.exe or dfsvc.exe. W32/Myfip-K may also create files named temp.exe (also detected as W32/Myfip-K) and temp.txt (harmless). The worm attempts to register itself as a service process with the ServiceName and DisplayName "Distributed Link Tracking Extensions". W32/Myfip-K creates the following registry entry: HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Distributed File System kernel32dll.exe W32/Myfip-K builds a list of all filenames whose extension is one of PDF, DOC, DWG, SCH, PCB, DWT, DWF and MAX and whose path does not contain any of the following strings: Winnt Windows I386 Program Files All Users Recycler System Volume Information Inetpub Documents and Settings Wutemp My Music The worm then sends the contents of each file to a preconfigured IP address. This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/Dloader-JM http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderjm.html Troj/Small-DN http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojsmalldn.html Troj/BankAsh-C http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojbankashc.html W32/Poebot-J http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32poebotj.html W32/Rbot-YD http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32rbotyd.html Troj/Istbar-AT http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojistbarat.html Troj/Agent-CL http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagentcl.html Troj/Dloader-JL http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderjl.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/myfip-k.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