Topic: Trojan deletes warez and smut

[Clive]

The Register
John Leyden
Published Wednesday 17th May 2006 11:57
Virus writers have created a Trojan that deletes illicit files from compromised Windows PCs in addition to harvesting data from infected machines.

Erazer-A is spreading (albeit modestly) across P2P networks, where it poses as useful program files, or through chat programs.

If executed, the malware scours folders used for P2P apps for AVI, MP3, MPEG, WMV, GIF, ZIP and other files. It then erases any porn, warez, music or any other matching file type found in P2P directories before dropping copies of itself (using names such as names such as game.exe, goporn.exe, nero7.exe and officexpcrack.exe) in the shared folders of peer-to-peer (P2P) applications.  Erazer-A also turns off security applications running on the compromised machine.

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2006/05/17/killjoy_trojan/

[mistybear]

Is Sophos the only anti-virus/tojan software that will protect you from this trojan, or will AVG and A Squared be enough.

Not that I do any file sharing :wink:

[Clive]

My guess is that Sophos has identified it first.  All the others will offer protection pretty soon though.  The article claims that it's spreading "modestly" so you would be fairly unlucky if you became infected.

[sam]

and anyway you arent likely to be infected if you follow basic rules of computer security.

[mistybear]

Scan everything you download. Or don't download anything. :wink: