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Worm masquerades as e-mail warning about worm

Friday, September 29th, 2006

Send a mail that sounds like a security warning or an authoritative word of caution, and you have a better chance of potential victims opening it and downloading the attachment. Or that’s what the author of the new worm ‘Worm.Warezov.at’, thinks!
According to Security analysts at MicroWorld Technologies, Warezov.at or Stration, is a mass mailing […]

Aother worm warning

Saturday, November 26th, 2005

A variant of W32/Sober.gen@MM, W32/Sober@MM!M681 is another mass-mailing worm hiding inside a spam email attachment making its way around the net this weekend. When run, the virus displays a fake error message, infects the host computer then sends itself to stolen email addresses.
Here’s some info from the folks at McAfee:
What should I look for? FROM: […]