virus: [Fwd: Trend Micro Medium Risk Virus Alert - WORM_NETSKY.P]

From: Walter Watts (wlwatts@cox.net)
Date: Mon Mar 22 2004 - 23:23:26 MST

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    Subject: Trend Micro Medium Risk Virus Alert - WORM_NETSKY.P
    Date: Mon, 22 Mar 2004 20:55:50 -0800
    From: "Trend Micro Newsletters Editor"
    <newsletters@trendmicro.rsc03.com>
    Reply-To: "Trend Micro Newsletters Editor" <newsletters@trendmicro.com>
    To: wlwatts@cox.net

    Dear Trend Micro customer:

    As of March 22, 2004 7:05 AM PST, TrendLabs has declared a Yellow Alert
    to control the spread of WORM_NETSKY.P.
    TrendLabs has received numerous infection reports of this malware
    spreading in the US and Europe.

    This new NETSKY variant propagates via email using its own Simple Mail
    Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine.

    The email that it sends out has varying subjects, message bodies, and
    attachment file names. It gathers email addresses from files with
    certain extension names.

    It also has the ability to propagate via network shares by dropping
    copies of itself to shared folders of the affected system.

    It exploits a known vulnerability in the Internet Explorer involving the
    incorrect MIME header vulnerability (MS01-020) to execute the malware
    when the email is read. More information on this vulnerability is
    available at:

            
    http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.mspx

    TrendLabs has released the following EPS deliverables:

    TMCM Outbreak Prevention Policy 99 (ATA: 7:34 AM PST)
    Official Pattern Release 832 (ATA: 7:22 AM PST)
    Damage Cleanup Template 296 (ETA 1 hour 45 minutes)

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