Editor's Pick

Virus Tech

15 July 2003, 18:00 PM
STAR TECH
After a recent research by Messagelabs and all other antivirus software firms, a list of virus has been short listed that have affected large number of computers miserably and still continuing its malicious attacks. E-mail worms are increasing day by day and their actions are getting strong competing with the antivirus detectors. To stay on the internet you need to keep your virus guard always updated in order to stay safe. Users of hotmail are mostly exposed to attacks since a lot of spams are received everyday. Here's a briefing on some of the latest viruses.

W32/Palyh.A-mm

Discovery Date: 17/05/2003; Aliases: W32/Mankx-mm, W32/Sobig.B-mm

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The virus analysis says that this worm enters the infected user's address books, html and text files to find email addresses and sends itself to other computers through emails. The virus also drops a copy of itself as msccn32.exe and creates two registry keys that enable the worm to run whenever the computer starts. It can devote users by using false email addresses such as support@microsoft.com.

Lovgate.I; Lovgate.J and Lovgate.K

Discovery Date: 13/05/2003; Aliases: Supnot, I-Worm.Supnot

These viruses are versions of Lovgates and contain similar affects as the previous ones. Under the assessment of F-secure Lovgate.I,J&K have been graded at risk level 2. This is a mass mailing and network worm and these also have backdoor components. Apart from mass mailing they are also able to steal passwords typed from your keyboard. They also have a longer list of passwords to access the shared resources in your network.

- Saad Bin Fazle Hammadi
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