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The Register
It's My Party and I'll infect you if I want to
By John Leyden
Posted: 28/01/2002 at 12:26 GMT
Doing the rounds is a mass-mailing virus which promises photos
from
a party but delivers only embarrassment for Windows users.
The worm, Myparty, may appear to have come from a colleague or
friend and arrives as an email with the subject line 'new photos
from my party!'.
Attached to the email is a file called 'www.myparty.yahoo.com',
which is not - repeat, not - a link to a Web site.
Once the file (actually a .COM executable extension) is launched
the worm sends a copy of itself to every contact in the Windows
Address book. It also sends an email to [EMAIL PROTECTED],
presumably in order to allow its author to track its spread.
The worm uses a cunning variant of well known social engineering
tricks to spread itself, according to Graham Cluley, senior
technology consultant for Sophos Anti-Virus.
Myparty may slow down computer users' email and Internet
connections but is not believed to be particularly damaging.
Although spreading, the Myparty outbreak is far short of hitting
the epidemic proportions associated with damaging nasties such as
Love Bug, Sir Cam or the Nimda worm.
MessageLabs, a managed service provider which scans its users email
for viruses, reports having blocked more than 8,000 copies of the
worm.
Antivirus vendors are updating their software to pick up the virus
and protection is now largely in place. � Update
McAfee.com reports that the worm drops a backdoor Trojan
(BackDoor-AAF) on WindowsNT/2K/XP systems. Myparty only attempts to
mass mail itself and insert the Trojan if the system date is
between January 25-29, 2002.
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