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Happy Bytes
February 2nd, 2006, 10:09 AM
Ok guys, because there are recently a lot of threads because of this worm - NOD32 detects this threat as Win32/VB.NEI

This worm is known with the following aliases:

Email-Worm.Win32.Nyxem.e (Kaspersky)
W32/MyWife.d@MM (McAfee)
W32.Blackmal.E@mm (Symantec)
Win32.Worm.VB.TB (Bitdefender)

and known under the Press Name KAMASUTRA WORM

It was proactively detected by Advanced heuristics without update.

The worm has a payload for every 3rd of each month for overwriting files.

Our Description can be found here: http://www.eset.com/msgs/vbnei.htm

So please refrain from posting more questions if we detect this worm - YES WE DO.

Thanks for understanding this.
Mike