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zigar
February 8th, 2002, 01:15 AM
Discovered on: February 6, 2002

W32.Rexli.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic. When executed, the worm emails all contacts in the Microsoft Outlook address book. If mIRC is found, the worm modifies a file called Script.ini. This modification causes an infected user to send the worm to people over the IRC network.

http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.rexli.a@mm.html

think the folks at symantec must have a macro...

<exploitname> is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic. When executed, the worm emails all contacts in the Microsoft Outlook address book. If mIRC is found, the worm modifies a file called <exploitmodifer>. This modification causes an infected user to send the worm to people over the IRC network.

they must get tired of it...i know i do...

uraloony
February 8th, 2002, 01:28 AM
Good heads up! Keep it up!

ac1dsp3ctrum
February 8th, 2002, 01:29 AM
I think M$ releases viruses on purpose so they get publicity... Then when they fix the bug, all the people already using M$ think that they OS is more secure for them...

deByte
February 8th, 2002, 02:56 AM
looks like another template for virus/worm reporting... :D

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