Trend Micro Weekly Virus Report -- January 25, 2002

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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: January 25, 2002
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1. TREND MICRO UPDATES: Pattern File and Scan Engine Updates
2. A Mass-mailing VB Worm -- WORM_FRAGLED.A (Low Risk)
3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
4. Scan Your Computer FREE!
 
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1. TREND MICRO UPDATES: Pattern File and Scan Engine Updates
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PATTERN FILE: 207 http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
SCAN ENGINE: 5.630 http://www.antivirus.com/download/engines/
 
2. A Mass-mailing VB Worm -- WORM_FRAGLED.A (Low Risk)
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WORM_FRAGLED.A is written in Visual Basic and propagates by collecting email
addresses from files with *.DBX, *.MBX, *.HTML, *.IDX, and *.VBS extensions. It
uses Microsoft Outlook’s MAPI calls to send itself by email and also uses mIRC
and Microsoft Messenger to spread. Upon execution, it drops a file "LED.EXE" in
the Windows directory. The worm also deletes all files in the "ZoneAlarm" folder,
if it exists, except those that are currently in use.

For additional information about WORM_FRAGLED.A, please visit the
Trend Micro Virus Information Center at:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_FRAGLED.A
 
Trend Micro considers WORM_FRAGLED.A to be a very low risk virus and detection
will be available in the next official pattern release, #208 on or before
January 29, 2002.
 
3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro in the US
(week of: January 14 through January 20, 2002)
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1. WORM_BADTRANS.B
2. PE_MAGISTR.B
3. WORM_SIRCAM.A
4. PE_MAGISTR.A
5. JS_EXCEPTION.GEN
6. VBS_LOVELETTR.AS
7. PE_FUNLOVE.4099
8. WORM_HYBRIS.M
9. VBS_HAPTIME.A
10. PE_NIMDA.A
 
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Received on Fri Jan 25 23:30:20 2002