Be careful - Virus from User: "Andy"

foesepriolo

Bit poster
Sorry may be not here..but
Yesterday I have received PM from user Andy with file -"winxp_patch.rar" (I asked about this file some users)... but my Antivirus told me about virus in this file.
I have read about this virus on http://www.antivirus-scans.com/hackerinfo
In a short:
Trojan-AOL.Win32.Buddy.a

Trojan-AOL.Win32.Buddy.a
Aliases
Trojan-AOL.Win32.Buddy.a (Genesys Lab) is also known as:
Trojan.AOL.Buddy.a (Genesys Lab), APStrojan.ob (McAfee),
AOL.PWSteal.32512 (Symantec), Trojan.Buddy (Doctor Web),
Troj/Aolps-OB (Sophos), Trojan:Win32/PennyTools.236544.A
(RAV), TROJ_AOL.BUDDY (Trend Micro), TR/APS-Ob_#2 (H+BEDV),
W32/PennyTools.trojan (FRISK), Win32:Trojan-gen. (ALWIL),
Trojan.AOL.Buddy.A (SOFTWIN), Trojan.AOL.Buddy.A (ClamAV),
Trojan Horse.LC (Panda), AOL.Buddy.A (Eset) Description added
Feb 13 2002
Behavior Trojan
Technical details
this text was written by Alexey Podrezov, Data Fellows Ltd
The "Trojan.Aol.Buddy" (also known as "PennyTools Trojan") is
an AOL password stealing Trojan. Two versions are currently
known (by May 1999). This Trojan uses a tricky way of
installing itself to system. It uses 5 different ways at the
same time to make disinfection more difficult:


That is not very good virus. Be careful...
 
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