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#1 harrywaldron

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Posted 18 July 2004 - 12:38 PM

AGIST Worm - uses random garbage text for messages
http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyc...me=WORM_AGIST.A

TrendLabs has received several infection reports regarding this new worm spreading via email. It uses its own SMTP engine to propagate across machines. It arrives as a randomly-named .ZIP attachemnt via email. The details of the email message it sends out are as follows:

Subject: <none>
Body of message: (the message body is pure garbage)
Attachment: <random file name>.zip

The following is a sample email message that this worm sends out

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