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Virus Alerts in 2001

  • W32.Maldal.C@mm
    W32.Maldal.C@mm is a mass-mailing worm. The worm is written in Visual Basic, and it requires Visual Basic runtime libraries to execute.

  • W32.Goner.A@mm
    W32.Goner.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic. The worm has been compressed using a known Portable Executable (PE) file compressor.

  • W32.Badtrans.B@mm
    W32.Badtrans.B@mm is a new variant of W32.Badtrans.13312@mm. It is mass mailing email and memory resident worm.

  • W32.Nimda.E@mm
    W32.Nimda.E@mm is a new version of W32.Nimda.A@mm that contains bug-fixes and other modifications, which are designed to prevent detection of this variant by anti-virus programs.

  • W32.Vote@mm
    W32.Vote@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic. When it is executed, it spreads further by emailing itself to all addresses in the Microsoft Outlook address book.

  • W32.Nimda.A@mm
    W32.Nimda.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that utilizes multiple methods to spread itself. The worm sends itself out by email, searches for open network shares, attempts to copy itself to unpatched or already vulnerable Microsoft IIS web servers, and is a virus infecting both local files and files on remote network shares.

  • W32.BlueCode.Worm
    W32.BlueCode.Worm spreads between Windows NT/2000 systems that are running Microsoft's IIS.

  • W32.Magistr.39921@mm
    W32.Magistr.39921@mm is a new variant of W32.Magistr.24876@mm. It is also a memory resident Win32 worm-virus.

  • W32.Urgent.Worm@mm
    W32.Urgent.Worm@mm is a mass-mailing mail worm.

  • Code Red II
    The "Code Red II" worm exploits the same "buffer overflow" vulnerability identified in the previous "Code Red" Worm.

  • W32.Sircam.Worm@mm
    W32.Sircam.Worm@MM is a mass-mailing worm about 135 Kilobytes in size.

  • W32.Leave.Worm
    W32.Leave.Worm is a Win32 backdoor worm. It contains a mechanism to utilize the SubSeven/Backdoor-G Trojan.

  • VBS.VBSWG2.Z@MM
    VBS.VBSWG2.Z@MM is an encrypted VBScript email worm. It spreads via Microsoft Outlook by sending itself with an attachment "Mawanella.vbs" to all recipients in the Outlook Address book.

  • VBS.VBSWG2.X@mm
    VBS.VBSWG2.X@mm is an email worm generated with the VBSWG virus toolkit. It is similar to the widely spread in February 2001 VBS.SST@mm worm (also known as Anna Kournikova worm).

  • W32.Matcher
    W32.Matcher is an email worm. The worm file is a PE (Portable Executable) file and not encrypted or packed.

  • W32/BadTrans.A-mm
    W32/BadTrans.A-mm is a worm which uses MAPI to spread. The worm arrives in an email message with the text "Take a look to the attachment".

  • W32.Magistr.24876@mm
    W32.Magistr.24876@mm is a memory resident Win32 worm-virus. It spreads via Internet with infected emails and is able to spread itself over a local network.

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Selected virus alerts in recent years

 
 
     
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