TR/Ransom.G

Reported Infections: Low to medium Sorry, I could not read the content fromt this page.

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TR/Agent.81920.EA

 General Methods of propagation:
• Autorun feature
• Messenger
• Peer to Peer

Aliases:
•  Sophos: W32/Palevo-AI
•  Bitdefender: Backdoor.Tofsee.DI
•  Panda: W32/P2Pworm.OJ
•  Eset: Win32/Peerfrag.FD

Platforms / OS:
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003

Side effects:
• Drops malicious files
• Registry modification

Description inserted by Petre Galan on Thursday, December 16, 2010
Description updated by Petre Galan on Thursday, December 16, 2010

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HTML/Small.AE

 General Method of propagation:
• No own spreading routine

Aliases:
•  Symantec: Trojan.Webkit!html
•  Sophos: Troj/Bpac-A

Platforms / OS:
• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows NT
• Windows ME
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 7
• Linux
• Unix
• OS/2
• Mac

Side effects:
• Makes use of software vulnerability

Description inserted by Alexander Bauer on Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Description updated by Alexander Bauer on Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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Worm/Pale.opi.12392

 General Methods of propagation:
• Autorun feature
• Messenger
• Peer to Peer

Aliases:
•  Sophos: Mal/Palevo-A
•  Bitdefender: Worm.Generic.252444
•  Panda: W32/P2Pworm.OJ
•  Eset: Win32/Peerfrag.HF

Platforms / OS:
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003

Side effects:
• Drops malicious files
• Registry modification

Description inserted by Petre Galan on Thursday, December 16, 2010
Description updated by Petre Galan on Thursday, December 16, 2010

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JAVA/Small.Y

 General Method of propagation:
• No own spreading routine

Aliases:
•  Kaspersky: Trojan-Downloader.Java.OpenConnection.cl
•  F-Secure: Trojan-Downloader.Java.OpenConnection.cl

Platforms / OS:
• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows NT
• Windows ME
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 7

Side effects:
• Drops a file

Description inserted by Alexander Bauer on Tuesday, December 21, 2010
Description updated by Alexander Bauer on Tuesday, December 21, 2010

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TR/Spy.Banker.XH.10

 General Method of propagation:
• No own spreading routine

Aliases:
•  Symantec: Suspicious.MH690.A
•  Kaspersky: Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.avtr
•  F-Secure: Trojan-Spy.Win32.Zbot.avtr
•  Sophos: Mal/Agent-IE
•  Microsoft: TrojanSpy:Win32/Banker.XH
•  AVG: Delf.UYL
•  Panda: Trj/CI.A
•  Grisoft: Delf.UYL
•  Eset: Win32/Delf.PLO
•  AhnLab: Win-Trojan/Agent.300544.V
•  Ikarus: Trojan-Spy.Win32.Banker

Platforms / OS:
• Windows 95
• Windows 98
• Windows 98 SE
• Windows ME
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003
• Windows Vista
• Windows Server 2008
• Windows 7

Side effects:
• Registry modification
• Steals information

Description inserted by Alexander Bauer on Thursday, December 16, 2010
Description updated by Alexander Bauer on Thursday, December 16, 2010

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Avira KK Celebrates First Year in Japan

Customer Requests Pull German Anti-Virus Software Maker into Global Expansion

Tokyo, December 2, 2010 - IT security expert Avira today celebrates the one-year anniversary of its Japanese subsidiary, Avira KK. Avira also announces that it now serves more than 2.5 million users in Japan.

Avira KK’s one year anniversary will be celebrated with an event at Xex Daikanyama. Avira KK has chosen to use the anniversary to show its appreciation to its first supporters in Japan, and has invited 100 users, out of more than 300 respondents in 4 days, to celebrate the occasion at an intimate event. Company founder and CEO Tjark Auerbach will personally greet attendees, and will conduct a technical workshop that discusses recent trends in Internet security.

“Our customers literally pulled us into Japan,” said Richard Yamamoto, VP Asia Pacific. “A couple of years ago we noticed that some of our customers had collaborated to translate our software and support pages into Japanese. Thousands of download requests then poured in, and when we passed 750,000 Japanese users we felt we had to set up an official office to support them. Today we celebrate our earliest loyal users.”

In appreciation for the support of users in Japan, Avira KK is currently offering a 50% Off Campaign for all of its products.

The complexity of the Japanese language makes it challenging for security software vendors. Also, Japanese users tend to send emails that are very rich in html, embedded pictures, ASCII art and other details which allow many places to hide spam, phishing and malware code. These two trends combine to make Japanese computer users more prone to localized attacks than other industrialized and Internet connected countries. Avira estimates that approximately 15 percent of malware and 14 percent of phishing URLs detected and blocked in 2010 were hosted in the Internet region APNIC (Asia-Pacific NIC).

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Avira Premium Security Suite is "Software of the Year 2010"

Visitors from softwareload.de chose Avira as the winner in the "Security" category

Tettnang, October 22, 2010 – Over 800,000 Internet users took part in the Softwareload.de online poll, which ran between September 1 - 30, 2010, to select the "Software of the Year 2010." Voters picked their favorites from 18 software categories. Avira Premium Security Suite won first place in the "Security" category leaving nine competitors in its wake.

Prior to the online vote, a jury made up of 12 well-known IT and business journalists as well as company representatives selected ten software programs for each category.

"We are pleased to win this award and are honored to have the support of so many fans," explains Travis Witteveen, Chief Sales and Marketing Officer at Avira GmbH. "More than 100 million private users worldwide have shown their great trust in Avira virus protection. To be voted "Software of the Year 2010" by the Softwareload.de community is very reassuring for us."

Avira's anti-virus programs offer Internet users the right protection for all their online activities. Avira AntiVir Personal offers users free basic protection and can be downloaded from www.free-av.de. It protects against viruses, key loggers, and other threats on the Internet. The Avira AntiVir Premium solution offers users expanded security functions such as Avira WebGuard and MailGuard. These filter out viruses from the Internet data flow, thus preventing them from ever reaching your computer. The Avira Premium Security Suite offers additional protection featuring a firewall and parental controls as well as a backup function.

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TR/OnlineGam.106413

 General Methods of propagation:
• Autorun feature
• Mapped network drives

Aliases:
•  Symantec: W32.Gammima.AG
•  Mcafee: W32/Autorun.worm.zzw
•  Kaspersky: Worm.Win32.AutoRun.gls
•  TrendMicro: WORM_TATERF.CA
•  F-Secure: Trojan.PWS.OnlineGames.KCRI
•  Sophos: Mal/Taterf-B
•  Bitdefender: Trojan.PWS.OnlineGames.KCRI
•  Microsoft: Worm:Win32/Taterf.B
•  Panda: W32/Autorun.JFL
•  PCTools: Worm.AutoRun!sd5
•  VirusBuster: Worm.AutoRun.WZJ
•  Eset: Win32/PSW.OnLineGames.NNU
•  Sunbelt: Worm.Win32.Taterf.b (v)
•  GData: Trojan.PWS.OnlineGames.KCRI
•  AhnLab: Win32/Autorun.worm.106413
•  Authentium: W32/Autorun.OT
•  DrWeb: Trojan.PWS.Wsgame.12824
•  Fortinet: W32/AutoRun.GLS!worm
•  Rising: Trojan.PSW.Win32.OnlineGame.zqz

Platforms / OS:
• Windows 2000
• Windows XP
• Windows 2003
• Windows Vista

Side effects:
• Downloads a file
• Drops malicious files
• Registry modification
• Steals information

Description inserted by Alexandru Dinu on Thursday, October 14, 2010
Description updated by Andrei Ivanes on Friday, October 15, 2010

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