Re: Vermin alert

[cld@xxxxxxxx (Carl Distefano)]

Reply to note from Patricia M Godfrey  Sat, 1
Mar 2003 10:25:06 -0500

> Well, that last varmint may have been a new one.

Symantec reports that it was discovered in September of 2001. You
might talk to Panda about this.

> Come to think of it, the typical script kiddy wouldn't know how
> to write a .com file, would he?

In this virus, the attachment filename is randomly generated. The
extension is arbitrary; it might just as well have been .exe, .bat
or .pif.

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