[pchelpers] News:PandaLabs detects new wave of Spamta worms

Date: 20 November 2006
        
Issue: Two hundred and thirteen (20/11/06 - 24/11/06)
(ICT World)
Category: Global News

        
PandaLabs has detected seven new variants of Spamta in circulation over 
the last few days. This new wave of worms comes just one month after the 
previous one, in which the creators of this threat released as many as 
67 variants. It is not unlikely that new variants of this worm will 
appear over the next few weeks.

The Spamta worms reach computers as attachments to e-mails. The 
appearance of these messages is variable, although in many cases they 
simulate e-mail delivery error messages.

The new variants detected are similar to each other, their only 
differences being the e-mail messages they use as bait, the size or 
compressed format of the files that contain the worms, or the files that 
they copy to affected computers. They are all designed to send 
themselves out to addresses they find on infected computers.

More here:
http://www.ictworld.co.za/EditorialEdit.asp?EditorialID=27677
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