Trend Virus Report - May 2001 Issue # 2

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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: 05.11.2001 Issue Number: 05/02
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1. TREND MICRO UPDATES: Pattern File and Scan Engine Update
2. Opening Porn Web sites -- VBS_HOMEPAGE.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
5. Win a Free Copy of Trend Micro PC-cillin 2000
  
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1. TREND MICRO UPDATES: Scan Engine and Pattern File Updates
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PATTERN FILE: 887 http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
SCAN ENGINE: 5.300 http://www.antivirus.com/download/engines/
 
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2. Opening Porn Web sites -- VBS_HOMEPAGE.A
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VBS_HOMEPAGE.A is a new Internet worm that was generated by a Visual Basic
Script worm generator, vbswg2.x. It propagates only via Microsoft Outlook
by sending itself as an email attachment to all addresses listed in the
infected user's address book. After this, the worm randomly tries to open
one of four pornographic Web sites using Internet Explorer. A sample of the
email this worm sends out is as follows:
 
Subject: Homepage
Message Body: Hi! You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O)
Attachment: HOMEPAGE.HTML.VBS
 
For additional information about VBS_HOMEPAGE.A please refer to our Web site at:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=VBS_HOMEPAGE.A
 
VBS_HOMEPAGE.A is detected and removed with Trend Micro pattern file #886 and above.
 
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3. 10 Most Prevalent In-The-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
(week of: 04/30/2001 to 05/06/2001)
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1. PE_MAGISTR.A
2. TROJ_BADTRANS.A
3. TROJ_HYBRIS.B
4. VBS_KAKWORM.A
5. VBS_HAPTIME.A
6. TROJ_MTX.A
7. JOKE_SCROLL.A
8. TROJ_BYMER
9. PE_MTX.A
10. TROJ_MTX.A.DLL
 
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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_BADTRANS.A
3. TROJ_HYBRIS.B
4. PE_MAGISTR.A
5. PE_CIH
6. TROJ_MTX.A
7. TROJ_HYBRIS_P16
8. TROJ_SKA
9. TROJ_QAZ.A
10. TROJ_HYBRIS.DLL
 
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Received on Fri, 11 May 2001 11:46:29 -0700