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These are the latest top virus
threats as reported by AVG Anti-Virus.
I-Worm/Stration
This worm spreads by e-mail as an
attachment or as a hyperlink in ICQ message. On the
infected computer virus harvests e-mail addresses or
ICQ contacts to which it sends its copies. Virus can
download and install other unwanted programs from
the Internet. More information can be found in the
Virus Encyclopaedia.
June 27, 2007
Exploit.ANI
There is a new breed of threat
against a vulnerability known for over a year in
Cursor and Icon Format Handling described in
MS05-002. Microsoft fixed this vulnerability
already but the fix wasn't complete. Affected
systems are Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista.
AVG detects all known variants of this exploit as
Exploit.ANI.
March 31, 2007
BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC
Trojan horses
BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and BackDoor.Generic3.GBC are
almost similar. Both of them exploiting MS Windows
Server Service vulnerability described in Microsoft
Security Bulletin MS06-040 for it's spreading. More
information can be found in the
Virus Encyclopaedia.
August 14, 2006
Worm/Generic.FX
This worm spreads by internet and
contains one dangerous payload action - every 3rd
day of month worm overwrites files with doc, xls,
mdb, mde, ppt, pps, zip, rar, pdf, psd and dmp
extensions. More information can be found in the
Virus Encyclopaedia.
January 24, 2006
Exploit.WMF
These files exploits WMF
vulnerability in Windows Operating Systems that
allows malware code execution while WMF format file
is opening. Unfortunately security patch for this
vulnerability is not available at this time. AVG
detects these files as Exploit.WMF and also as
Trojan horse Downloader.Agent.
December 29, 2005
I-Worm/Bagle.JH
It spreads thanks to massive
SPAMing, messages contains attachments with zip
extension and exe file inside with 9968 B size. Worm
tries to download next component from the internet,
but the link is no longer accessible.
December 15, 2005
I-Worm/Sober.CF
This virus comes in as an
attachment to emails written in English or German
language. The attachment is a Zip archive with
random name which contains the random named
executable file with 55,390 b size.
November 17, 2005
I-Worm/Sober.S, .T
This virus comes in as an
attachment to emails written in English or German
language. The attachment is a Zip archive which
contains the file PW_Klass.Pic.packed-bitmap.exe
(113,551 b) in case of .S variant or file
Screen_Photo.jpeg-graphic1.exe (122,751 b) in case
of .T variant.
October 6, 2005
I-Worm/Mytob.LY, LZ (aka Zotob.A -
B)
This worm spreads exploiting
security hole described in Microsoft Security
Bulletin MS05-039. More information can be found in
the
Virus Encyclopaedia
August 15, 2005
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