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VIRUS ADVISORY: W32/Sober.p@MM
Another variant of the Sober virus, W32/Sober.p@MM is a Medium Risk mass-mailing worm hiding inside an email attachment. When run, the worm displays a fake error message, infects the host computer and sends itself to the email addresses that are harvested from the infected machine. Like many Sober variants, this variant uses several different email messages randomly, in either English or German depending on the version of Windows.
How do I know if I've been infected?
When the ZIP archive is extracted and the contained PIF file is manually executed, the virus may display a fake error message which reads "Error: CRC not complete".
How do I find out more?
View details about W32/Sober.p@MM here.
W32.Josam.Worm
Discovered on: November 03, 2004
W32.Josam.Worm is a worm that spreads via email using its own SMTP engine. It requires the run-time files, Vcl50.bpl and NMFast50.bpl, to run.
Backdoor.Alnica
Discovered on: November 03, 2004
Backdoor.Alnica is a Backdoor Trojan horse that allows unauthorized remote access to the infected computer.
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DO NOT OPEN
ANY EMAIL WITH AN ATTACHMENT UNLESS YOU KNOW FOR SURE IT IS SAFE TO DO SO!!
I cannot stress this enough, however people still do this regularly. Sometimes
the email may even seem to be from someone you know, so be very careful and
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Internet.
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Internet sites, and then be real careful.
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