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Re: New variant of Virus ?


From: Gary Flynn <flynngn () jmu edu>
Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2004 12:06:10 -0500



Hubbard, Dan wrote:

It looks like there maybe a new variant of the virus MyDoom worm. We
have seen the following:

RE: I still love you fLctv
Error 551: We are sorry your UTF-8 encoding is not supported by the
server, so the text was automatically zipped and attached to this
message.

The file attached is message.zip and unzips to message.exe

I am analyzing the file for behavior and will update, but has anyone
else seen this yet ?

We've seen several of these here since yesterday. I submitted
it last night and was told third-hand that the following Sophos
definition was created for it:

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/trojstawina.html

--
Gary Flynn
Security Engineer - Technical Services
James Madison University



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