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Re: New "concept" virus/worm?


From: "Jim" <mlist () budget co nz>
Date: Wed, 19 Sep 2001 15:12:37 +1200

If a Windows 95/98/ME
user opens it, will his or her system begin to spread the worm as
well?

yes.

...and, in both cases, will infect through open shares and once the
machine is restarted, will spread thus from that machine.

Does anyone know whether or not the only way to infect a 98 machine is via
scripting?  I mean, does the worm attempt to remote-shag anything other than
Win2k/IIS machines?



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