From; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Mytob-G Aliases: W32/Mytob.gen@xxxx Type: Win32 worm Date: 25 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/Mytob-G can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32mytobg.html W32/Mytob-G is a mass-mailing worm and backdoor Trojan that targets users of Internet Relay Chat programs. When first run W32/Mytob-G copies itself to the Windows system folder as tagmr.exe and creates the following registry entries: HKCU\Software\Microsoft\OLE Windows Tagmsnger tagmr.exe HKCU\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa Windows Tagmsnger tagmr.exe HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Windows Tagmsnger tagmr.exe HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Ole Windows Tagmsnger tagmr.exe HKLM\SYSTEM\CurrentControlSet\Control\Lsa Windows Tagmsnger tagmr.exe HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run Windows Tagmsnger tagmr.exe HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices Windows Tagmsnger tagmr.exe W32/Mytob-G copies itself to the root folder as: funny_pic.scr my_photo2005.scr see_this!!.scr and creates the helper file hellmsn.exe (detected by Sophos as W32/Mytob-D) in the same location. W32/Mytob-G also appends the following to the HOSTS file to deny access to security related websites: 127.0.0.1 www.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 securityresponse.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 symantec.com 127.0.0.1 www.sophos.com 127.0.0.1 sophos.com 127.0.0.1 www.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 liveupdate.symantecliveupdate.com 127.0.0.1 www.viruslist.com 127.0.0.1 viruslist.com 127.0.0.1 viruslist.com 127.0.0.1 f-secure.com 127.0.0.1 www.f-secure.com 127.0.0.1 kaspersky.com 127.0.0.1 www.avp.com 127.0.0.1 www.kaspersky.com 127.0.0.1 avp.com 127.0.0.1 www.networkassociates.com 127.0.0.1 networkassociates.com 127.0.0.1 www.ca.com 127.0.0.1 ca.com 127.0.0.1 mast.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 my-etrust.com 127.0.0.1 www.my-etrust.com 127.0.0.1 download.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 dispatch.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 secure.nai.com 127.0.0.1 nai.com 127.0.0.1 www.nai.com 127.0.0.1 update.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 updates.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 us.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 liveupdate.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 customer.symantec.com 127.0.0.1 rads.mcafee.com 127.0.0.1 trendmicro.com 127.0.0.1 www.microsoft.com 127.0.0.1 www.trendmicro.com This IDE file also includes detection for: Troj/Dloader-JX http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdloaderjx.html Troj/Agent-DC http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojagentdc.html Troj/Drever-C http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdreverc.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/mytobg.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