 AGIST Worm - uses random garbage text for message, Never open strange messages |
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  Jul 18 2004, 12:38 PM
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 Security Reporter  Group: News Reporters Posts: 484 Joined: 10-April 04 From: Roanoke, Virginia Member No.: 107  |
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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