Trend Micro Virus Report - September 2001 Issue #2

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W E E K L Y V I R U S R E P O R T
    
(by the Trend Micro US Virus Research Group)
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Date: September 14, 2001
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1. TREND MICRO UPDATES: Pattern File and Scan Engine Updates
2. Feeling Blue - TROJ_BLUECODE.A (Low Risk)
3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
4. Top 10 Viruses Trend Micro's US Customers are Most Concerned About
5. Test Your Virus Knowledge & Scan Your Computer FREE!

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1. TREND MICRO UPDATES: Pattern File and Scan Engine Updates
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PATTERN FILE: 939 http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
SCAN ENGINE: 5.450 http://www.antivirus.com/download/engines/

2. Feeling Blue - TROJ_BLUECODE.A (Low Risk)
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This new worm attacks Windows NT and 2000 machines running IIS. It obtains access to a remote server using the IIS Web Directory Traversal exploit also known as the Unicode Web Traversal IIS exploit. Upon execution, this worm creates 100 threads or copies of itself, and for its payload, each of these threads carries out a Denial of Service (DoS) attack on a certain server. For the worm's propagation routine, each worm thread generates a random IP address and then checks for the presence of IIS server in the intended machine.

Trend Micro has received no reports of infection at this time. This worm has been classified as low risk.

For additional information about TROJ_BLUECODE.A, please visit Trend Micro at:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=TROJ_BLUECODE.A

TROJ_BLUECODE.A is detected and cleaned by Trend Micro pattern file #936.

3. 10 Most Prevalent In-The-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
(week of: September 3, 2001 to September 9, 2001)
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1. TROJ_SIRCAM.A
2. PE_MAGISTR.DAM
3. VBS_HAPTIME.A
4. PE_MAGISTR.A
5. TROJ_NEWPIC.A
6. TROJ_BADTRANS.A
7. TROJ_MTX.A
8. TROJ_BLKSTONE.A
9. JS_KAKWORM.A
10. TROJ_HAI.A

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4. Top 10 Viruses Trend Micro's US Customers are Most Concerned About
(where systems were not infected)
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1. PE_MAGISTR.DAM
2. TROJ_SIRCAM.A
3. PE_MAGISTR.B
4. VBS_HAPTIME.A
5. VBS_TAM.A
6. TROJ_BYMER
7. TROJ_NEWPIC.A
8. TROJ_FUNSO.A
9. TROJ_APOST.A
10. PE_MAGISTR.A

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