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Subject: Re: Fafis and the virus

Author: Komputer Korner

Date: 17:56:49 05/24/05

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On May 24, 2005 at 08:24:17, Christopher Conkie wrote:

>Hello Guenther,
>
>The worm creates two exe's (taskgmr.exe and hellmsn.exe) which in turn create
>two *.scr files which in turn mail spam to all in your address book, by using
>it's own a self created SMTP process. The files are also recreated with a
>reboot. It also enters into the registry info that allows a port to be opened as
>well.
>
>It says nowhere (that I can see) that this particular variant (W32.mytob@mm)
>affects compression software or that it affects any other file.
>
>This particular worm in this form appears to be a mailer not something that
>attaches itself to other exe files.
>
>Speaking of variants ......why would this appear in output?
>
>64907>1:accepted sigterm
>64907<1:feature reuse=0 analyze=0 time=1
>64907>1:accepted reuse
>64907>1:accepted analyze
>64907>1:accepted time
>64907<1:feature myname="Fafis 2.1"
>64907>1:accepted myname
>64922<1:feature variants="normal"
>64922>1:accepted variants
>
>Variants? Suicide chess? Hmmmmm......
>
>And why would you obstificate strings....?
>
>And why would you not support "position fen"? Let me think now.....no.....I
>still don't get it......I still wonder why.
>
>All is not correct here as Fabien said......this matter still needs very many
>questions answered.
>
>Christopher

How do we make sure that our systems are not infected? Will anti spyware catch
this stuff?



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