 Netsky AG - New variant in-the-wild |
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  Oct 14 2004, 06:36 AM
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 Security Reporter  Group: News Reporters Posts: 491 Joined: 10-April 04 From: Roanoke, Virginia Member No.: 107  |
As noted, Secunia provides a good summary of all AV vendors (as many have differing suffixes). Thankfully, this new variant remains low-risk by most AV vendors currently. Secunia Information http://secunia.com/virus_information/12662/ McAfee - W32/Netsky.ag@MM http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_128905.htm Symantec - W32.Netsky.AD@mm (currently rated Level 2) http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.netsky.ad@mm.html This variant of W32/Netsky is similar to previous variants. It bears the following characteristics: * constructs messages using its own SMTP engine * harvests email addresses from the victim machine * spoofs the From: address of messages Avoid all EMAIL attachments that end as follows: .pif .com .scr .bat .zip -------------------- |
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Oct 14 2004, 12:10 PM
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Security Reporter Group: News Reporters Posts: 491 Joined: 10-April 04 From: Roanoke, Virginia Member No.: 107 |
McAfee just went MEDIUM RISK with DAT 4399 issued
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