Re: [APML] vbs worm

["Andy Wallace" <andywallace@home.com>]

What day, month combo?? Don't open it.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike Halderman" <astro@mrh.org>
To: <astro-photo@seds.org>
Sent: Monday, February 12, 2001 1:57 PM
Subject: Re: [APML] vbs worm


>
> I decoded it and took it apart.  It is actually visual basic worm.  It
doesn't
> appear to hurt anything, it just sends itself to everyone in your Outlook
> address book.
>
> On a particular day/month combo, however, it talks to webserver in the
> Netherlands and tries to run commands it finds.
>
> As far as I can tell it doesn't even leave your machine infected.
>
> I don't run windows, so you can send these to me all you want...
>
> -mike
>
> "Jason Lewis" <jlewis@nomoon.org> writes:
>
> > DON'T OPEN IT!!
> >
> > I heard something on radio an hour ago about this virus.  I wasn't
paying
> > attention to the radio, but I remember hearing that lots of people were
> > being infected today with a virus of this name.   The Symantec site is
too
> > busy to get through, so I haven't been able to confirm.
> >
> > Can someone else confirm?
> >
> > Jason
> >
> > See Astrophotos at http://www.nomoon.org
> >
> >
> >
> >
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