mark2 Posted March 29, 2004 Report Share Posted March 29, 2004 Another variant of netsky doing the rounds.http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyc...e=WORM_NETSKY.QAs of March 29, 2004, 12:29 AM PST, TrendLabs has declared a MEDIUM RISK VIRUS alert to control the spread of this new NETSKY variant spreading in Japan and China. It uses its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine to propagate via email with varying subjects, message bodies,and attachment file names. It gathers email addresses from files with certain extension names in drives C to Z (except for CD-ROM drives). It also exploits a known vulnerability affecting Internet Explorer involving incorrect MIME Header (MS01-020), which allows the automatic execution of email attachments while an email is read or previewed. More information on this vulnerability is available at: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/...n/MS01-020.mspx Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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