Simple Worms Makes Great Strides

ronjor · Jan 18, 2006

With a variety of names -- F-Secure calls it VB.bi, Symantec dubs it Blackmal.e, McAfee labels it MyWife.d -- the worm, said Helsinki-based F-Secure, is a simple Visual Basic (VB) construction that arrives as an e-mail file attachment. The worm also spreads through shared folders, and when activated tries to disable a number of security programs, including those sold by Symantec, McAfee, Trend Micro, and Kaspersky Labs.

One of its distinguishing features, noted the Internet Storm Center (ISC) in its alert is that "the attachment can be either an executable file or a MIME file that contains an executable file."
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Randy_Bell · Jan 20, 2006

See Blackspear's thread in NOD32 forum:
We may have a new outbreak...

Also this thread of mine is the same worm:
Trend Micro Virus Alert: WORM_GREW.A

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