another mass mailer : Enemany & Pet Ticky

ho hum,

most of us won't need to worry.. but just for you information..

You will be able to link to the Enemany and Pet Ticky info from the following link.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/
what are we upto here version D already..

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W32.Enemany.D@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all contacts in the Microsoft Outlook Address Book. The worm arrives in an email with the following characteristics:

Subject: The New Xerox Update for our WinXP
Attachment: Xerox-Update.exe


Also Known As: W32/Enemany.gen@MM, Win32.Enemany.C
Type: Worm
Infection Length: 8,704 bytes
Systems Affected: Windows, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Windows Me

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Cheers

another good reason to keep antivirus updated

As long as the virii are written in Visual Basic, we (penguins) will be okay.

Quote:

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W32.Pet_ticky.gen is a simple mass mailer which sends itself to all contacts in the Microsoft Outlook Address Book. The worm is a compiled Visual Basic executable which has been compressed with UPX. The worm arrives in an email with the following characteristics:
Type: Worm
Infection Length: 9,216 bytes
Systems Not Affected: Unix, Linux

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Quote:

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W32.Enemany.D@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all contacts in the Microsoft Outlook Address Book.

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Outlook again no surprise there.