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W32.Maldal.K@mm
| Discovered on:
April 22, 2002 |
| Last Updated
on: April 24, 2002 at 10:44:33 AM PDT |
W32.Maldal.K@mm is a variant of W32.Maldal@mm.
It is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual
Basic. The worm attempts to send itself to all contacts
in the Microsoft Outlook address book and the MSN
Messenger contact list. It also searches for email
addresses in all .html files. It creates several
registry keys and files on the system.
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W32.Elkern.3326
| Discovered on: April 17, 2002 |
| Last Updated on: April 24, 2002
at 10:46:25 AM PDT |
W32.ElKern.3326 is a virus that infects files over open shares,
mapped drives; it also tries to infect all executable files in the
\Windows\System folder.
If it is activated under Windows NT/2000, then this virus will crash
when first activated.
If it is activated under Windows 9x and you have a mapped network share
that is write-protected, then this virus will crash your computer after
a short period.
Some files that become infected with this virus will not change in size.
This virus has a payload that will destroy all files on locally
connected drives (including mapped drives).
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