It's important to note that this thing isn't spreading much, if at all. But still important for people to be advised of it, to be aware. I believe among the reasons why it's not so widespread is that the circumstances resemble too much NIPC's alert of over a week ago about wtc.txt.vbs and anything else that might look to get people to react on something wtc related. Jimmy >You folks may be on top of this already, but it appears to be ugly. > > Vote.A > This new mass-mailing worm propagates through Microsoft and sends >itself to addressees in the infected users address book. The worm, written >Visual Basic, will appear as an email message subjected "Fwd: Peace Between >America and Islam" and will provide an attached file called WTC.exe (approx. >55kb in size). If the attached file is executed two infectious programs >will initiate and insert themselves on the Windows/ System folder. If >infected the worm will delete all files in the Windows directory along with >creating a backdoor to allow unauthorized system access. > <http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.vote.a@private>
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b30 : Sun May 26 2002 - 11:25:58 PDT