Internet Worm/Virus Going Around-- INFO

[Marina]

Here's a freebie from me! I'm an IT professional and just recently was notified of a virus. Consider this a free consultation.

Don't open any email about a new flash movie, and especially don't open the creative.exe attachment!

This Internet worm may be received via email in this form:

Subject = A great Shockwave flash movie
Body = Check out this new flash movie that I downloaded just now ... It's Great
Attachment = creative.exe

When run, this Internet worm will write a copy of itself to the local
system and then send a copy of itself via MAPI email to all users in the
address book. As a final note, it sends a note to presumably the author:

Author = z14xym432@yahoo.com
Subject = Job complete
Body = Got yet another idiot

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Method Of Infection
After running the file CREATIVE.EXE, it will seek files of .JPG and .ZIP on the local machine. If any are found, this file is moved to the root of
C: with this additional suffix at the end "change atleast now to LINUX".

Example: "c:\Notebook.jpgchange at least now to LINUX"

A helpful note about this action however, this Internet worm logs the
changes to a file named "c:\messageforu.txt". Within this file is the
following text:

Hi, guess you have got the message. I have kept a list of files that I
have infected under this. If you are smart enough just reverse back the
process. i could have done far better damage, i could have even completely
wiped your harddisk. Remember this is a warning
& get it sound and clear... - The Penguin


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For those of you not familiar with Linux, it is another operating system,
as Windows is an operating system. The mascot is a penguin. Since the file
name changes to "at least now to Linux" and the sender is "The Penguin" I
believe this to be an avid Linux fan. (which I am too) But I personally
think it's a foreigner because the English is kind of strange. Unless
it was a non-foreigner that is pretending to be a foreigner, ha ha!

[nanabee]

Thanks for the heads up.