Re: new WIN virus?

[Gregor Lawatscheck <gpel () mpex net>]

Atom 'Smasher' wrote:
[...]
> the original spam, the page that it requests, and the suspicious "exe"
> file:
>         http://smasher.suspicious.org/tmp/live-virus.tgz
[...]
> updatte.exe was tested on:
>    yahoo-mail
>    http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html
>    http://www.dials.ru/english/www_av/
>    http://www.rav.ro/scan/indexn.php
> and they all reported that the file poses no threat. i suspect they're
> wrong.

I've submitted this file to AVERT WebImmune ( https://www.webimmune.net 
) and they now detect it as
a password phishing Trojan called "pws-polk". I've also sent a sample to 
newvirus (at) kaspersky.com so they get a chance to update their signatures.

- Gregor