Title: McAfee.com Dispatch - VIRUS Advisory
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Sent: Friday, April 20, 2001 9:59 PM
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VIRUS Advisory - W32/Badtrans@MM and W32/Matcher@MM
The incidence
of the following 2 MEDIUM-RISK viruses has been rising
over the last several days. McAfee.com recommends that you
scan your system to check for infection.
1. W32/Badtrans@MM
is a mass-mailing worm that spreads via
the email program MS Outlook. This worm creates an Outlook
object that sends an infected document as a reply to all
unread email messages. If the attachment is opened, the worm
displays a message box:
Title: Install error
Message: File data corrupt: probably due to a bad
data transmission or bad disk access.
Once running, the Trojan attempts to mail the victim's IP
Address to the author. When this information is obtained, the
author can connect to the infected system via the Internet and
steal personal information such as usernames, and passwords.
In addition, the Trojan is capable of capturing other vital
information such as credit card and bank account numbers.
Click
here for detection and removal instructions.
2. W32/Matcher@MM is a mass-mailing worm that spreads via MS
Outlook.
Once running, the program attempts to email itself to
everyone in the Outlook Address book repeatedly, until the
worm is removed from the system. The email message appears as
follows:
Subject: Matcher
Body: Want to find your love mates!!! Try this its
cool... Looks and Attitude Maching to opposite sex.
Attachment: Matcher.exe
Click
here for more information.
McAfee.com VirusScan Online and Clinic Subscribers:
If you don't have ActiveShield installed and updated, you are
not protected from these worms. Click
here to download ActiveShield.
New Users: Click
here to scan your system for free.
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| Virus Fixes |
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more about this virus. Click
here to go to the W32/Badtrans@MM Help
Center.
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the latest copy of VirusScan, please click
here.
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updates and an upgrade to the latest version of
VirusScan, click
here.
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the latest DAT files, click
here.
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