Beware of the 'skunk.exe'!

[Barbusa]

A pal has just alerted me to a really nasty little creature which first appeared just before Christmas and, as yet, there is no known cure, other than to reformat the affected hard disk partition.

It is able to fasten itself to email attachments sent from an infected machine so be very careful.

Info taken from - www.sophos.com:-

W32/Sunk-A (aka skunk.exe)
Type Worm

Aliases Virus.Win32.VB.aa

W32/Sunk-A is a worm for the Windows platform.
The worm will display the following fake error message:
"An unexpected error has occurred on the execution of this file"
W32/Sunk-A will attempt to replace every file on the infected computer that has the extension EXE with a copy of itself. The worm will also copy itself to folders known to be used by popular Peer-To-Peer programs using various names.
W32/Sunk-A will send messages to AIM users with one of the following messages and a link to a url that contains an executable:
Aim Hacker 1.3 FREE!
Best Aim Password Cracker written by ZeX.
Better then limewire and kazaa put together!
Check my Pics Out!
Check out my music!
Check out my webcam.
Click to join! Better then myspace and xanga!
Cool hacking programs!
Download Aim Optimized 4.9!
Download Dead Aim (5.9+)- NEW!
Download my mp3 i made.
Download My Profile.
Email Hacker Pro 1.5 This is awsome!
Free Aim Password Cracker. Use it to hack your friends.
Funniest Clip Ever!
Game Hacker program download here.
Get X-im Chat! Better then AIM!
Hack ******* and Aim accounts with O-Hax! This is the last day it will be out
for free!
Have you see this!
INFINITE FREE PICS OF ASIAN HOTTIES!
Join this free music site!
LMAO OMG THIS IS HILARIOUS!
LOL Check these Pics out.
Lol OMG! Someone posted your picture here!
LOL Watch this clip!
LOLOL WTF IS THIS?!
Make your own Profile!
My Xanga!
OMG LOOK IT'S YOU!
Play the new Aim Online game!
See my Beach pictures!!
Take my Quiz!
THE KEY TO HAPPINESS IS LAUGHTER!
This game is badass! Play now!
View My BuddyProfile
Wanna See My Profile!


Unfortunately, from checking their websites, it would appear that AVG, Norton, McAfee, Kaspersky and F-Prot have not heard of it and, according to my pal, Sophus is only able to offer a ‘part cure’ and is dependent on how long the virus has had to penetrate the system!

So unless you've got Sophus installed and fully up to date the chances are that it will not be picked up by your software.

Microsoft are also unaware of this one at the moment!

Is anybody else aware of this one?

[ukbobboy01]

Thanks for the info.

By the way, anti-virus producers share info so, sooner or later, other anti-virus apps will be updated to take care of this nasty creature.



UK Bob