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Greetings, [log in to unmask] I thought you would be interested in knowing about this computer Virus... Name: W32/Badtrans@MM Characteristics: This mass mailing worm attempts to send itself using Microsoft Outlook by replying to unread email messages. It also drops a remote access trojan (detected as Backdoor-NK.svr with the 4134 DATs; <I>detected heuristically as New Backdoor prior to the 4134 DAT release</I>). When run, the worm displays a message box entitled, "Install error" which reads, "File data corrupt: probably due to a bad data transmission or bad disk access." A copy is saved into the WINDOWS directory as INETD.EXE and an entry is entered into the WIN.INI file to run INETD.EXE at startup. KERN32.EXE (a backdoor trojan), and HKSDLL.DLL (a keylogger DLL detected as DUNpws.av) are written to the WINDOWS SYSTEM directory, and a registry entry is created to load the trojan upon system startup. HKLM\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\RunOnce\kernel32=kern32.exe <I>Note: Under WinNT/2K, an additional registry key value is entered instead of a WIN.INI entry: HKEY_USERS\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\RUN=%WinDir%\INETD.EXE </I> Once running, the trojan attempts to mail the victim's IP Address to the author. Once this information is obtained, the author can connect to the infected system via the Internet and steal personal information such as usernames, and passwords. In addition, the trojan also contains a keylogger program which is capable of capturing other vital information such as credit card and bank account numbers and passwords. The next time Windows is loaded, the worm attempts to email itself by replying to unread messages in Microsoft Outlook folders. The worm will be attached to these messages using one of the following filenames (note that some of these filenames are also associated with other threats, such as <A target=_blank href="http://vil.nai.com/vil/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98797">W95/MTX.gen@M</A >): Card.pif docs.scr fun.pif hamster.ZIP.scr Humor.TXT.pif images.pif New_Napster_Site.DOC.scr news_doc.scr Me_nude.AVI.pif Pics.ZIP.scr README.TXT.pif s3msong.MP3.pif searchURL.scr SETUP.pif Sorry_about_yesterday.DOC.pif YOU_are_FAT!.TXT.pif The message body may contain the text:Take a look to the attachment.<I>AVERT first received an intended version of this worm (10,623 bytes) on April 11 from a company in New Zealand.</I> To check your system for this Virus, and to learn how to protect yourself from computer viruses, visit the McAfee.com Clinic at http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=2103. For complete information on this Virus, view McAfee.com's Virus Information Library listing at http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99069. This email was sent to you by Jorge Romero, MD ---------------------------------------------------------------------- To sign-off Parkinsn send a message to: mailto:[log in to unmask] In the body of the message put: signoff parkinsn