Yes, confirmed as a false positive.  I never did get through to their support 
last night, waited on hold for over an hour.  I ended up just excluding the 
winlogon.exe to get us back up and running.

Thanks all and enjoy your Labor Day (if you’re into that sort of thing) ☺

From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Eric Wittersheim
Sent: Sunday, September 04, 2016 10:58 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [NTSysADM] RE: Outbreak

False positive confirmed by Sophos Support this morning.  Here is a KB they 
sent me.

https://community.sophos.com/kb/en-us/125000

On Sun, Sep 4, 2016 at 8:53 AM, Richard Stovall 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Is it a real outbreak?  Everything I can find about that name is really old.  
Bad defs from Sophos resulting in false positives?

On Sep 4, 2016 7:34 AM, "Beard, Julius" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
Yep, we’re seeing the same on a number of machines running Sophos. I see they 
updated their KB article in Threat Center last night, but now it goes to a 404 
page.

You get any response from them?

From: [email protected]<mailto:[email protected]> 
[mailto:[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>] 
On Behalf Of Kelsey, John
Sent: Sunday, September 4, 2016 12:16 AM
To: '[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>' 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>>
Subject: [NTSysADM] Outbreak

We’re seeing a massive outbreak of Troj-FarFli-CT tonight, affecting 
winlogon.exe.  Sophos doing a poor job of stopping it so far.  Anyone else 
seeing similar?
Tons of our VMs are getting infected.  On hold for over 30 minutes waiting for 
Sophos support right now.

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