brewmaster15
05-12-2003, 04:55 PM
Hi everyone,
I'll just pass this along from my IT department...a memo sent today...
Here is some information on the virus. Be careful at home as well.
W32.HLLW.Fizzer@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all contacts in the Windows Address Book. It contains a backdoor that uses mIRC to communicate with a remote attacker. It also contains a keylogger and attempts to spread through the KaZaA file-sharing network. The worm attempts to terminate the process of various antivirus programs if they are found to be active.
Due to the number of submissions received from customers, Symantec Security Response is upgrading this threat from a Category 2 to a Category 3 threat.
new computer worm spreading over the Internet captures a user's keystrokes and creates a back door that could give an attacker access to the infected system or enable the machine to secretly be used in a denial of service attack.
The new worm, named "Fizzer," first appeared on May 8 and propagates using a wide range of methods, according to alerts posted by leading antivirus companies.
First and foremost, Fizzer is a mass-mailing worm, hiding in executable attachments to e-mail messages with seductive subject lines, said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of Avert Labs at Network Associates. The virus is contained in executable e-mail attachments with names such as "Jesus123.exe" that are generated randomly from lists maintained by the worm.
Messages containing the virus arrive in victims' e-mail inboxes with subjects such as "You might not appreciate this...," "Re: how are you?" and "I thought this was interesting..." according to alerts posted by antivirus companies McAfee, which is part of Network Associates, and F-Secure.
Fizzer affects machines running versions of Microsoft]'s Windows operating system and is capable of spreading through vulnerable shared directories on computer networks and over the Kazaa peer-to-peer network, McAfee said.
take care,
al
I'll just pass this along from my IT department...a memo sent today...
Here is some information on the virus. Be careful at home as well.
W32.HLLW.Fizzer@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all contacts in the Windows Address Book. It contains a backdoor that uses mIRC to communicate with a remote attacker. It also contains a keylogger and attempts to spread through the KaZaA file-sharing network. The worm attempts to terminate the process of various antivirus programs if they are found to be active.
Due to the number of submissions received from customers, Symantec Security Response is upgrading this threat from a Category 2 to a Category 3 threat.
new computer worm spreading over the Internet captures a user's keystrokes and creates a back door that could give an attacker access to the infected system or enable the machine to secretly be used in a denial of service attack.
The new worm, named "Fizzer," first appeared on May 8 and propagates using a wide range of methods, according to alerts posted by leading antivirus companies.
First and foremost, Fizzer is a mass-mailing worm, hiding in executable attachments to e-mail messages with seductive subject lines, said Vincent Gullotto, vice president of Avert Labs at Network Associates. The virus is contained in executable e-mail attachments with names such as "Jesus123.exe" that are generated randomly from lists maintained by the worm.
Messages containing the virus arrive in victims' e-mail inboxes with subjects such as "You might not appreciate this...," "Re: how are you?" and "I thought this was interesting..." according to alerts posted by antivirus companies McAfee, which is part of Network Associates, and F-Secure.
Fizzer affects machines running versions of Microsoft]'s Windows operating system and is capable of spreading through vulnerable shared directories on computer networks and over the Kazaa peer-to-peer network, McAfee said.
take care,
al