This one is very real, so watch out fot it. A virus
that will destroy your hard drive. Once again, NEVER
open an email attachment with a .exe on the end. NEVER.
More information can be found at:
http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/worm.explore.zip.html
You will be doing yourself a big favor by reading about
it and, if you already opened it, there is a
description of how to remove it. It "might" come in the
form of an email such as:
Hi Receipient Name!
I received your email and I shall send you a reply
ASAP.
Till then, take a look at the attached zipped docs.
bye or sincerely Receipient Name
Your name and the senders' name are copied from your
address book.
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Worm.ExploreZip contains a very malicious payload.
Worm.ExploreZip utilizes
Microsoft Outlook, Outlook
Express, and Microsoft Exchange to mail itself out
by replying to unread messages in
your Inbox. The payload of the worm will
destroy any file with the
extension .h, .c, .cpp, .asm, .doc, .ppt, or .xls on
your
hard drive(s), as well as any
mapped drives, each time it is executed. The worm
will also search the mapped drives
for Windows installations and copy itself to
the Windows directory, and then
modify the WIN.INI file. This will infect
systems without e-mail clients.
This continues to occur until the worm is
removed.
You may receive this worm as a
file attachment named "zipped_files.exe".
When run, this executable will
copy itself to your Windows System directory
with the filename "Explore.exe",
or your Windows directory with the filename
"_setup.exe". The worm modifies
your WIN.INI or registry such that the
"Explore.exe" or "_setup.exe" file
is executed each time you start Windows.
Worm.ExploreZip was first
discovered in Israel and submitted to the Symantec
AntiVirus Research Center on June
6, 1999.
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