Re: New "concept" virus/worm?

From: Brett Glass (brettat_private)
Date: Tue Sep 18 2001 - 09:57:36 PDT

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    At 10:21 AM 9/18/2001, Jay D. Dyson wrote:
    
    >        It's a two-prong worm.  It appears to be primarily disseminated
    >via e-mail, and then launches its attacks on web hosts upon successful
    >infection.
    
    Newsbytes is calling this worm "Code Rainbow," while some of the antivirus
    firms seem to be calling it "W32.Nimda.A@mm".
    
    Can the e-mail infect anything other than Windows NT/2000? Will it infect
    a system that's running Windows NT/2000 but not IIS? If a Windows 95/98/ME 
    user opens it, will his or her system begin to spread the worm as well?
    
    --Brett Glass
    
    
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