VIRUS ALERT No.64 -- Tuesday, April 10, 2001,
Trojan.Futs
Anti-virus software developers McAfee and Sophos report this afternoon the detection of the latest Trojan, Trojan.Futs, which is a program with many dangerous possibilities. It is also designed to integrate with Novell Netware.
It is intended to be an "anti-school" package. When executed, the Trojan presents the user with a screen containing various options. These include filling the local hard disk, erasing the CMOS memory, deleting all files on the local hard disk, causing the NetWare server to beep constantly, making various NetWare queries or activating a multi-user chat system.
The Trojan includes a "boss screen" option, which pops up a fake Borland Pascal 7.0 window.
Troj.Futs also has an option to drop
the BW-770-b DOS executable file virus.
A BW-770-b is a DOS executable file virus that when executed, infects COM
and EXE files in the current directory, increasing their length by 770
bytes. Occasionally the virus performs one of the following:
Display the message: "Don't be a fool, f**k the school"
Attempts to format the hard drive
Cause the computer to beep constantly until it is rebooted
The virus was written with the Biological Warfare virus construction
kit.
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