The “IT Services Alert Notification” issued an new alert yesterday that cautions users about a mass-mailing worm which arrives via e-mail here is the information:
Subject Line: Mail Server Report
Body of E-Mail:
“Mail Server Report
Out firewall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are being sent from your computer.
Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a new virus type (network worms).
Using the new bug in the Windows, these viruses infect the computer noticeably. After the penetrating into the computer the virus harvests all the e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to these e-mail addresses.
Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer restoring.
Best regards,
Customer support service”
The virus offers updates to stop your computer from being used to spread mass-mailing worms, but in fact infects the PC with a mass-mailing worm, known as Warezov.w or W32/Warezov.X and downloads additional worms from a specific website on the Internet.
Typically, a mass-mailer arrives on a computer via e-mail. In some cases, the infected attachment can start automatically. In other cases, the system is infected when the user opens the attachment. When a typical mass-mailer is activated, it installs itself to the system and creates a start up key for itself in the registry. It then stays active in the system's memory. While active, the mass-mailer searches for specific files (HTML files for example) on all available hard disks for e-mail addresses. Finally, it connects to an available mail server and sends itself to all the addresses it has found.
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