Re: Email virus on the prowel

From: Elias Levy (aleph1at_private)
Date: Wed Oct 20 1999 - 09:53:32 PDT

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    Lots of people replied this is a worm/virus/trojan called VBS.Freelink.
    For more information:
    
    http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.freelink.html
    http://www.symantec.com/region/uk/avcenter/venc/vbs_freelink.html
    http://vil.mcafee.com/vil/vbs10225.asp
    http://www.DataFellows.com/v-descs/freelink.htm
    http://www.trend.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS_FREELINK.
    http://vil.nai.com/villib/alpha.asp
    http://vil.nai.com/vil/vbs10225.asp
    
    Decrypted versions of links.vbs and rundll.vbs:
    
    http://www.tirsek.dk/bugtraq/links_vbs.txt                                      http://www.tirsek.dk/bugtraq/rundll_vbs.txt
    
    Highlights:
    
    * The worm spread via email, IRC if it can find mIRC and
      by copying itself to network drives.
    
    * Its not new, but it has spread wide recently.
    
    * Most scanner are not configured to look for .VBS files by default.
      You must tell your scanner to look for them.
    
    Thanks:
    
    Norbert Luckhardt <nlat_private>
    Eric Chien <ecchienat_private>
    Peter Tirsek <peterat_private>
    Pollard, Bette <PollardBat_private>
    Rodefeld, Sonja <Sonja.Rodefeldat_private>
    Jaapar, Jazzery <JJaaparat_private>
    Christopher P. Lindsey <lindseyat_private>
    AMackenzieat_private
    Dennis Dow <ddowat_private>
    Tim Sole <timsat_private>
    Dan Schrader <Dan_Schraderat_private>
    
    
    --
    Elias Levy
    Security Focus
    http://www.securityfocus.com/
    



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