TREND MICRO WEEKLY VIRUS REPORT

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TREND MICRO WEEKLY VIRUS REPORT
    
(by TrendLabs Global Antivirus and Research Center)
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Date: August 16, 2002
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1. Trend Micro Updates - Pattern File and Scan Engine Updates
2. WORM_BIHUP.A Makes Itself Known (Low Risk)
3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
4. FREE Virus Scan: Clean your system online with Trend Micro's HouseCall

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1. Trend Micro Updates - Pattern File and Scan Engine Updates
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PATTERN FILE: 335 http://www.trendmicro.com/download/pattern.asp
SCAN ENGINE: 6.150 http://www.trendmicro.com/download/engines/

2. WORM_BIHUP.A Makes Itself Known (Low Risk)
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This is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to addresses found in unread email messages of Outlook Express. Upon execution, this worm loads some Mail Application Programming Interface (MAPI) functions, which it uses to send email messages.
It checks for an "Outlook Express" window and then searches for unread messages. For each unread message, it retrieves the email address of the original sender. Then it sends an email message to that address with a copy of itself as attachment to the email. The subject and message of the email are written in Korean. The attachment may be one of the following:

* Heddink.exe
* Go Korea.exe
* RedDevil.exe
* WorldCup.exe
* 2002.exe

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WORM_BIHUP.A is detected and cleaned by Trend Micro pattern file #334 and above.

For additional information about WORM_BIHUP.A please visit: http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_BIHUP.A

3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
(week of: August 5, 2002 to August 11, 2002)
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1. WORM_KLEZ.H
2. JS_NOCLOSE.A
3. JS_EXCEPTION.GEN
4. PE_NIMDA.A-O
5. JS_NOCLOSE.E
6. PE_NIMDA.E
7. WORM_SIRCAM.A
8. WORM_YAHA.E
9. REG_STARTPAGE.A
10. PE_MAGISTR.A
 

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Received on Sat Aug 17 21:44:22 2002