Re: Win32.Sircam.Worm Alert.....

From: Martin Lindquist (martinat_private)
Date: Tue Jul 24 2001 - 08:13:35 PDT

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    Today I received two e-mails with the mentioned attachments, although
    from people I have never heard of before. Since I'm fighting SPAM every
    single day, I don't open attachments in e-mails from unknown senders
    (some people seem too happy to get e-mail and think everyone who sends
    them one is a good guy), but I recognised the text and thought I'd drop
    a line about the e-mail I received a couple of days ago, more precisely
    Thursday 19th. It's the same mail, with one big difference; it's in
    spanish:
    
    | Hola como estas ?
    | 
    | Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto de vista
    | 
    | Nos vemos pronto, gracias.
    
    I don't know much spanish, but it looks to me as a direct translation of
    the english version. Subject line was "WOWWWWWWWW" and the attached
    (suspected evil) file is named "WOWWWWWWWW.doc.com".
    
     / Martin Lindquist
    
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    EPiC wrote:
    > 
    > Friday morning I recieved an email from a friend,  it looked as though he
    > was sending me a .doc to look over. To my dismay, it was a worm that had
    > infected him.
    > 
    > I have found little information about this worm,  Mostly located at
    > http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.wormat_private
    > 
    > The Worm will come from someone that has you on there contact list, and will
    > have a differnt subject line determined by the attached file.
    > 
    > The text will read in english as:
    > 
    > Hi! How are you?
    > 
    > I send you this file in order to have your advice
    > 
    > See you later. Thanks
    > 
    > ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
    > ----
    > 
    > ****
    > 
    > The link i posted above has a program that will remove the worm,  I would
    > suggest using that rather than deleting it yourself,  I found that I was
    > renaming regedit.ext to regedit.com to even open regedt.  The worm tries to
    > run any executables through it's own shell code.
    > 
    > This being my first real post to Bug-traq I would like feedback.  Any
    > questions, hate-mail, death-threats etc can be sent off to epicat_private
    > 
    > thank you
    > 
    > EPiC
    > hack3r.com
    



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