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Myparty Worm
Spreading Quickly
A new mass-mailing worm hit the Internet on Sunday and has
begun spreading rapidly.
http://www.extremetech.com/article/0,3396,s%253D201%2526a%253D21783,00.asp
The new worm is known as Myparty.A and arrives as an e-mail with the
subject line "New photos from my party!"
The body of the message reads as follows:
"Hello! My party...It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web
page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos.
Thanks"
There is an attachment named
www.myparty.yahoo.com,
which does not point to any Web page and is instead a disguised
executable file. When executed, the file uses its own SMTP engine to mail
itself to everyone in the infected PCs Microsoft Outlook address book.
The new worm first appeared on Sunday and MessageLabs Ltd., a U.K.-based
firm that tracks viruses, had stopped more than 3,800 copies of it as of
10 a.m. EST Monday, officials there said.
Symantec Corp., the Cupertino, Calif., security vendor, gave Myparty.A a
severity rating of three on a five-point scale.
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