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Author Topic: Email borne worm disables many anti-virus programs  (Read 1822 times)

hake

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Email borne worm disables many anti-virus programs
« on: September 11, 2010, 07:59:07 PM »

From speedguide.net news: -

A new email worm is landing in email inboxes worldwide, disabling the anti-virus software of the unwary.

Dubbed 'Here you Have', it's a new attack, with the first reported cases appearing yesterday. However, it's similar to classic old-school mass-mailing viruses like Nimda, Melissa and the Anna Kournikova virus from 2001.

Symantec says the worm disables many common anti-virus products.

It arrives as an email asking the recipient to open a link. However, the link points to a malicious program file disguised as a PDF hosted on the internet. When the user clicks on the link, the malicious file - W32.Imsolk.B@mm - is downloaded and launched. This installs the worm onto the victim’s computer and emailing the original message to everyone in the infected user’s email address book.

Read more here: http://www.tgdaily.com/security-features/51477-here-you-have-a-virus
« Last Edit: September 12, 2010, 09:41:09 AM by hake »
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Re: Email borne worm disables many anti-virus programs
« Reply #1 on: September 12, 2010, 06:10:14 AM »

Thank you for the heads-up, hake.
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