Trend Micro Weekly Virus Report -- March 15, 2002

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   T R E N D M I C R O W E E K L Y V I R U S R E P O R T
    
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Date: March 15, 2002
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1. TREND MICRO UPDATES: Pattern File and Scan Engine Updates
2. Saying it in Japanese--WORM_FBOUND.B, alias: W32/Fbound.C (Medium Risk)
3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
4. Trend Micro PC-cillin 2002 is NOW AVAILABLE!!
 
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1. TREND MICRO UPDATES: Pattern File and Scan Engine Updates
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PATTERN FILE: 244 http://www.antivirus.com/download/pattern.asp
SCAN ENGINE: 6.100 http://www.antivirus.com/download/engines/
 
2. Saying it in Japanese--WORM_FBOUND.B alias: W32/Fbound.C (Medium Risk)
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WORM_FBOUND.B is a mass-mailing worm that is currently in- the- wild. It propagates
by sending itself to all email addresses listed in an infected user's Windows
Address Book. It arrives in an email with a subject that it randomly selects from
a group of 17 Japanese language phrases, if the email address of the recipient ends
with .jp. A sample of the email this worm arrives in is as follows:
 
TO: <recipient>
SUBJECT: <"Important" or random Japanese text
(applicable on Japanese supported platforms)>
MESSAGE BODY: <blank>
ATTACHMENT: patch.exe
 
This non-destructive worm does not drop files or create any registry entries.
Its propagation depends on the execution of the file attachment in the email.
 
For additional information about WORM_FBOUND.B, please visit
the Trend Micro Virus Information Center at:
http://www.antivirus.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_FBOUND.B
 
WORM_FBOUND.B is detected and cleaned by Trend Micro pattern file #241 and above.
 
3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro in the US
(week of: March 4 through March 10, 2002)
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1. PE_MAGISTR.B
2. PE_MAGISTR.A
3. WORM_BADTRANS.B
4. WORM_KLEZ.E
5. JS_EXCEPTION.GEN
6. WORM_HYBRIS.M
7. PE_NIMDA.E
8. WORM_SIRCAM.A
9. WORM_NEWPIC.A
10. WORM_MYPARTY.A
 
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Received on Sat Mar 16 01:00:41 2002