Trend Micro News Letter

[martymas]

i havent recieved one of these for some time so im not sure if it has been posted or not

take care

marty

Dear Trend Micro customer,

As of February 2, 2005, 6:55 PM (GMT - 08:00), TrendLabs has declared a

Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of WORM_BROPIA.F.

TrendLabs has received numerous infection reports indicating that this

malware is spreading in the Bolivia, U.S., Korea, Taiwan, Mexico, and

China.

This is a memory-resident worm that drops a copy of itself in the root

folder using different interesting file names with a PIF extension.

It attempts to propagate by sending copies of itself to all MSN Messenger

contacts.

It also drops the file WINHOST.EXE in the Windows system folder. Trend

Micro detects the said file as WORM_AGOBOT.AJC.

It has an anti-debugging technique, which enables it not to run if any of

the following debugging applications are present on the affected system:

? NT-ice

? Softice

It also drops and displays an image file, named SEXY.JPG.

TrendLabs will be releasing the following EPS deliverables:

TMCM Outbreak Prevention Policy 144

Official Pattern Release 2.390.00

Damage Cleanup Template 505

For more information on WORM_BROPIA.F, you can visit our Web site at:

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyc...e=WORM_BROPIA.F

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[tg1911]

Thanks for the heads-up, Marty.

[thesidekickcat]

Thanks for the information Marty.

I wonder if this is the one that Intel warned everyone not to click on yesterday. My hubby forgot the name of it by the time he told me.

Norton has sure been busy this week with antivirus definitions updates, so there must be lots of new junk from slime jerks cranking out more of the stuff that would harm us all.

Check often for updates, do your scans, and stay safe folks.

P.S.

Either this flu bug is really getting to me worse than I thought, or the continual barrage by the garbage dealers of worms, virus, and trojans and the constant need to get updates to stay safe from it all. Hubby and I should have gotten a flu shot too, except for shortage problem, thankfully we are on the road to better I think.

Anyhow I forgot to add my usual signoff.

God bless everyone.

Edited February 5, 2005 by thesidekickcat

[rv56]

Thanks for sharing these Marty.......very much appreciated.

[bar5]

Thanks Marty for the detailed info.

Barb

[missy51633]

i just went over there and read that newsletter martymas and thanks a bunch for putting it on here good idea i hadn't heard anything about it yet

missy51633