Worms Archive

Worms: Conycspa

December 1st, 2006, by Kristopher | Posted in Trojans, Worms

Conycspa is a mass mailer that may download and install adware, malware, and dialers onto your computer. Conycspa may email itself to all of your addresses in your Outlook address book, which is how you may have been infected. Conycspa may secretly install itself onto your system, making Conycspa difficult to manually detect and remove.

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Worms: Worm.Doombot

October 18th, 2006, by Kristopher | Posted in Worms

Worm.Doombot is a worm that may replicate itself and infect your computer through email attachments. Worm.Doombot may intentionally disable your anti-virus software, and may allow an anonymous attacker remote access to your system via an IRC backdoor. Doombot may attempt to email itself as attachment to all email addresses it finds on your PC, and Doombot may also spread itself through instant messanger applications. Doombot may also be known as Mytob.NK and Foundu-A.

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Worms: W32.Mydoom.AX@mm

July 23rd, 2006, by Kristopher | Posted in Worms

W32.Mydoom.AX@mm is a mass-mailing worm that may use its own SMTP engine to send emails to infect other computers. When W32.Mydoom.AX@mm infects your computer, it may gather email addresses from your Windows Address Book and email these people attachments infected with W32.Mydoom.AX@mm. Once your system is infected, W32.Mydoom.AX@mm may automatically download a trojan onto your PC.

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Worms: SpamBrief

July 12th, 2006, by Kristopher | Posted in Worms

SpamBrief is a worm that may infect your computer through an attachment of an infected email message. SpamBrief uses Microsoft Outlook to send itself to all of the email addresses in your address book. The infected email sent by SpamBrief may have the subject line of “here comes the subject” and a body text of “here comes the body.” SpamBrief’s attachment may be named “virus.bat.” SpamBrief is written in Visual Basic Script.

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Worms: Passma

May 2nd, 2006, by Kristopher | Posted in Worms

Passma is a worm that spreads itself through infected email attachments, via vulnerable software and networks. The Passma worm may attempt to steal your username and password, computer name, IP address, and other personal information and send it to an attacker. The Passma worm may also infect your personal documents, delete your computer programs, and corrupt your computer system files.

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Worms: W32.Bagle.dl

April 4th, 2006, by Kristopher | Posted in Worms

W32.Bagle.dl is a mass mailing worm that may spread as an email attachment as well as a file in peer-to-peer (P2P) programs. W32.Bagle.dl may change your computer’s “HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Params”, which may eventually lower the security settings on your system. W32.Bagle.dl may also silently downloads files from web sites onto your computer. The file that W32.Bagle.dl uses to spread itself and infect your computer may be called:

max.zip
text_sms.zip
Business.zip
Info_Prices.zip
The_new_prices.zip
Business_dealing.zip
Health_and_knowledge.zip

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Worms: MyTob

March 7th, 2006, by Kristopher | Posted in Worms

MyTob is a mass-mailing worm that may use its own SMTP engine to email itself to addresses it automatically gathers from your computer and other infected PCs. MyTob can block your access to security-related websites and can terminate any security software - including most antivirus applications - that you run. The MyTob worm spreads itself by composing emails full of common, meaningful messages, attaching infected files to the message, and sending this email to email addresses gathered from your computer’s local files and accounts. The subject of MyTob’s infected email can be any of the following:

(Blank Subject)
SERVER REPORT
Mail Delivery System
(Random Characters)
Mail Transaction Failed
hello
hi
test
status
error

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Worms: W32.Bagle.gen

March 6th, 2006, by Kristopher | Posted in W32.Bagle.Gen, Worms, detect spyware, detecting spyware, free spyware download, free spyware remover, hijack spyware, how to get rid of spyware, spyware detection, spyware program, spyware protection, spyware remover

W32.Bagle.gen is a mass-mailing worm that may automatically connect to various web sites and sends your computer’s information to them. W32.Bagle.gen may also download Block_list.txt from the sites it visits and drop this file under your system folder. When W32.Bagle.gen installs Block_list.txt, this may disable your Windows Firewall if you have an Winxp-Sp2 machine. W32.Bagle.gen spreads itself as an email attachment that uses common first names as the file’s name. The name of the attachment infected with W32.Bagle.gen may be:

Edmund.zip
Elizabeth.zip
Fraunces.zip
Grace.zip
Henrie.zip
Jeames.zip

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