from; Sophos Alert System: Name: W32/Sdbot-BW Type: Win32 worm Date: 27 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/Sdbot-BW can be found at: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotbw.html Description W32/Sdbot-BW is a worm and backdoor for the Windows platform. W32/Sdbot-BW attempts to connect to a channel on a remote IRC server and allow a malicious user remote access to the infected computer. In order to run automatically when Windows starts up Troj/Sdbot-BW creates the following registry entries: HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ Microsoft AUT Update=MSlti32.exe HKLM\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunServices\ Microsoft AUT Update=MSlti32.exe HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\ Microsoft AUT Update=MSlti32.exe. W32/Sdbot-BW spreads by exploiting computers with weak passwords, unpatched vulnerabilities and backdoors opened by other worms. The worm may be configured to log the users keystrokes to a file named k3ys.txt in the Windows system folder. Recovery Please follow the instructions for removing worms This IDE file also includes detection for: W32/Agobot-JG http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotjg.html W32/Agobot-PP http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotpp.html W32/Agobot-JH http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32agobotjh.html Troj/Riler-A http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojrilera.html Troj/Dumaru-B http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdumarub.html WM97/Sherlock-G http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/wm97sherlockg.html W32/Sdbot-KY http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32sdbotky.html Troj/Daemoni-V http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojdaemoniv.html Download the IDE file from: http://www.sophos.com/downloads/ide/sdbot-bw.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
