26 September 2006
New email worm crawling between computers
Yet another real-world reminder to not open strange attachments in your email is circulating the web. Win32.Warezov.at is the latest email worm to be found in the wild of the Internet.
This worm takes addresses from your address book and then using its own SMTP engine sends emails to those addresses to infect even more computers. There are many different subject lines, but the most common are "Mail System Report", "Mail Delivery System" and "test". Users are safe from the email so long as they don't open the attached file within these messages.
For those interested in details about where the worm copies itself and the changes made to the Windows Registry that information can be found here.
This worm takes addresses from your address book and then using its own SMTP engine sends emails to those addresses to infect even more computers. There are many different subject lines, but the most common are "Mail System Report", "Mail Delivery System" and "test". Users are safe from the email so long as they don't open the attached file within these messages.
For those interested in details about where the worm copies itself and the changes made to the Windows Registry that information can be found here.
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