New Virus:
W32/Petik-K Aliases: Troj/Petik-K
Subject:
"Loft Story News..."
Message body:
"The last video of the program"
Attached
file: loft_story.exe Do
not open!!
Virus W32/Sircam-A
Do not open the attachment
If you recive an E-mail that
has any of the following
starting with the line,
How are you?"
"I send you this file in order
to have your advice"
"I hope you like the file that
I sendo you"
"I hope you can help me with
this file that I send" or
"This is the file with the information
you ask for"
The last line of the message always reads: "See you later. Thanks"
There is a fix for this virus
.
Another virus to watch for.
Don't open it
Description:
"You have one minute to
find the peach"
"Find the peach"
"Find"
"Peach"
The text of the message will be one of the following:
"Try finding the peach"
"Try this"
"Interesting search"
"I don't usually send
this things, but..."
The attachment will be called one of the following:
"find.pdf"
"peach.pdf"
"find the peach.pdf"
"find_the_peach.pdf"
"joke.pdf"
"search.pdf"
When the user opens the attachment,
a PDF with the title "You have one minute to find the peach" is displayed.
If the user follows the instructions
in the PDF, using the full version of Acrobat, Acrobat will extract the
worm and run it. It will display an image with the text "Line1,picture6"
while it is using Outlook to mail itself out.
I Don't have a fix yet
New Antivirus Tool NOT
Name: W32/Allgro-A
Aliases W32/Atirus@m,
W32.Allgro@mm, All3gro
Type: Win32
worm
W32/Allgro-A is an email-aware
worm which sends itself using MAPI functions.
The worm arrives in an
email with the subject "
New antivirus tool".
The message body contains the text
On September 16 the worm
displays the message box
"System protected by I-Worm.Antivirus
Copyright [c] 2001 by aLL3gRo".