[THIN] FW: Trend Micro Medium Risk Virus Alert - WORM_NETSKY.P
- From: "Philip Walley" <philip.walley@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <thin@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 23 Mar 2004 08:06:30 -0600
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Sent: Monday, March 22, 2004 9:32 PM
To: Philip Walley
Subject: Trend Micro Medium Risk Virus Alert - WORM_NETSKY.P
Dear Trend Micro customer:
As of March 22, 2004 7:05 AM PST, TrendLabs has declared a Yellow Alert
to control the spread of WORM_NETSKY.P.=20
TrendLabs has received numerous infection reports of this malware
spreading in the US and Europe. =20
This new NETSKY variant propagates via email using its own Simple Mail
Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine.=20
The email that it sends out has varying subjects, message bodies, and
attachment file names. It gathers email addresses from files with
certain extension names.=20
It also has the ability to propagate via network shares by dropping
copies of itself to shared folders of the affected system.=20
It exploits a known vulnerability in the Internet Explorer involving the
incorrect MIME header vulnerability (MS01-020) to execute the malware
when the email is read. More information on this vulnerability is
available at:=20
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http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/bulletin/MS01-020.mspx=20
TrendLabs has released the following EPS deliverables:=20
TMCM Outbreak Prevention Policy 99 (ATA: 7:34 AM PST) Official Pattern
Release 832 (ATA: 7:22 AM PST) Damage Cleanup Template 296 (ETA 1 hour
45 minutes)
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