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Subject: Re: Fafis and the virus

Author: Marc D

Date: 16:43:34 05/23/05

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On May 23, 2005 at 19:23:06, Michael Diosi wrote:

>On May 23, 2005 at 19:13:15, Marc D wrote:
>
>>On May 23, 2005 at 18:46:02, Michael Diosi wrote:
>>
>>>Hello,
>>>
>>>Could please someone explain me how Fafis can be affected by a virus. This virus
>>>doesn't replace any .exe files and it creates and affects two files:
>>>taskgmr.exe and hellmsn.exe. Just wondering how it got inside the Fafis file ?
>>>
>>>This is wahtr the virus does:
>>>
>>>http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mytob.bc@mm.html
>>>
>>>Thanks in advance,
>>>
>>>Michael
>>
>>Hi
>>
>>From what i understand the virus affects the compression of an executable
>>file.If executed it drops the file
>>%Temp%\C27D8FEF-D7AE-42c0-82E6-F30598265639.exe besides the other mentioned
>>files.
>>It is a very intelligent worm.
>>
>>Best
>>Marc
>
>In the distribution, of the Fafis 2.0 it is not a separate file, it is inside
>the code of Fafis.exe. How did it get there ? It doesn't affect any other exe in
>my understanding. Only creats two taskgrm.exe and hellmsn.exe which then make
>two *.scr files. So  how did it get there ? Still wondering...
>
>Best,
>
>Michael

Its a trojan called Clean.A which will be dropped after executing the fafis.exe
file.
This trojan surely affects exe files and can then carry even some worm
code.

Marc





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