Trend Virus Report - April 2001 Issue # 3

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V I R U S R E P O R T
    
(by the Trend Micro US Virus Research Group)
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Date: 04.20.2001 Issue Number: 04/03
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1. TREND UPDATES: Pattern File and Scan Engine Update
2. Matchmaking Hell -- TROJ_MATCHER.A
3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
4. Top 10 Viruses Trend Micro US Customers are Most Concerned About
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1. TREND UPDATES: Scan Engine and Pattern File Updates
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PATTERN FILE: 880 http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
SCAN ENGINE: 5.300 http://www.antivirus.com/download/engines/
  
2. Matchmaking Hell -- TROJ_MATCHER.A
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TROJ_MATCHER.A is a new player in the epidemic of Internet worms with a
sexual message. This one comes disguised as a Love Matching Program. It was
created in Visual Basic 6.0 and uses the Visual Basic component Microsoft
Script Control to propagate using Microsoft Outlook. It tries to send an
email with itself as an attachment twice to all addresses listed in the
infected user's address book. A sample of the email is as follows:
 
Subject: Matcher
Message Body:
Want to find your lovemates!!! Try this its cool... Looks and
Attitude Maching to opposite sex
Attachment: Matcher.exe
 
After the second email is sent, an error message is displayed.
 
For additional information about MATCHER.A, please refer to our Web site at:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_MATCHER.A
 
TROJ_MATCHER.A is detected with Trend Micro pattern #880 and above.

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3. 10 Most Prevalent In-The-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
(week of: 04/09/2001 to 04/15/2001)
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1. TROJ_HYBRIS.B
2. VBS_KAKWORM.A
3. TROJ_MTX.A
4. TROJ_BADTRANS.A
5. PE_MAGISTR.A
6. PE_MTX.A
7. TROJ_HYBRIS.DLL
8. TROJ_BYMER
9. TROJ_MTX.DLL
10. JS_SEEKER.E
 
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4. Top 10 Viruses Trend Micro US Customers are Most Concerned About
   (where systems were not infected)
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1. VBS_KAKWORM.A
2. TROJ_HYBRIS.A
3. TROJ_MTX.A
4. TROJ_BADTRANS.A
5. PE_MAGISTR.A
6. TROJ_HYBRIS.B
7. TROJ_BYMER
8. X97M_TAITAI
9. X97M_BARISADA.A
10. VBS_LOVELETTR.BE
 
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Received on Fri, 20 Apr 2001 14:37:51 -0700