Trend Micro Weekly Virus Report - November 1, 2002

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TREND MICRO WEEKLY VIRUS REPORT
    
(by TrendLabs Global Antivirus and Research Center)
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Date: November 1, 2002
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1. Trend Micro Updates - Pattern File, Scan Engine, & Antispam Updates
2. One Destructive Sponge – WORM_SPONGE.A (Low Risk)
3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
4. Protect Your Most Important Investment – Your Family – With Net Nanny

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1. Trend Micro Updates - Pattern File, Scan Engine, & Antispam Updates
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PATTERN FILE: 373 http://www.trendmicro.com/download/pattern.asp
SCAN ENGINE: 6.150 http://www.trendmicro.com/download/engines/
ANTISPAM RELEASES: 508-522

2. One Destructive Sponge – WORM_SPONGE.A (Low Risk)
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WORM_SPONGE.A is a destructive, memory-resident worm that propagates via Microsoft Outlook by sending itself as an email attachment to all addresses found in the Microsoft Outlook address book.

It arrives in an email with the following details:

Subject: SpongeBob Wallpaper

Message Body: Send this to your friends and make them laugh…

Attachment: Spongy.exe

It drops files and modifies the registry so that its copy, ACE1.COM executes at every Windows startup. The worm also overwrites .SCR and .PIF files, and its Macro virus component infects Microsoft Word documents by overwriting the NORMAL.DOT template.

If you would like to scan your computer for WORM_SPONGE.A or thousands of other worms, viruses, Trojans and malicious code, visit HouseCall, Trend Micro's free online virus scanner at: http://housecall.trendmicro.com/

WORM_SPONGE.A is detected and cleaned by Trend Micro pattern file #372 and above.

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

3. 10 Most Prevalent In-the-Wild Malware Surveyed by Trend Micro US
(week of: October 21, 2002 to October 27, 2002)
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1. WORM_BUGBEAR.A
2. WORM_KLEZ.H
3. JS_EXCEPTION.GEN
4. JS_TRAFFICHBAR.A
5. JS_NOCLOSE.E
6. WORM_OPASERV.A
7. HTML_IFRMEXP.GEN
8. JS_NOCLOSE.A
9. JOKE_RUSS.A
10. JS_SEEKER.E1

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