NEWS Anti-virus companies have warned computer users worldwide of a malicious worm carrying damaging malware.
W32/Badtrans is a mass mailing internet worm, which spreads via email and automatically tries to reply to unread email messages in MS Outlook. Once executed, the virus also leaves behind a nasty Trojan, which attempts to mail the victims IP address to the author of the virus.
The worm arrives with a variety of subject lines and body text which reads "Take a Look to the attachment". The attachment is a 13,312 bytes in size and is called one of the following:
S3MSONG.DOC.scr
Pics.DOC.scr
HUMOR.MP3.scr
Sorry_about_yesterday.MP3.pif
README.MP3.scr
ME_NUDE.MP3.scr
fun.MP3.pif
NEWS_DOC.DOC.scr
docs.DOC.pif
images.DOC.pif
HAMSTER.DOC.pif
SEARCHURL.MP3.pif
Most anti-virus vendors have issued patches which can be found on the relevant vendor's website.
Badtrans worm bad news for users
Don't "Take a look" at the attachment...
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