VIRUS ALERT No.47 -- 20th. June 2000
Brief Description
IRC/Stages.worm
IRC/Stages.worm is an Internet worm that began spreading rapidly yesterday, June 19,2000 and ALL our subscribers were advised of this withen a few hours of it's first appearance. AVERT has assessed it as a HIGH-risk threat. McAfee.com Clinic users who used VirusScan Online after June 16 have protection against this worm. The worm uses Microsoft Outlook to send copies of itself to all entries in the address book and through installations of Pirch, ICQ and mIRC.* It also spreads to all available mapped drives on your system.
This worm will arrive in an email message with ANY of these formats:
Subject: "Funny" OR
"Jokes" OR
"Life Stages"
sometimes followed by "Text"
Content: "The male and female stages of life"
Attachment: "LIFE_STAGES.TXT.SHS" (the suffix ".SHS" may be hidden)
If the attachment is run, the user sees a list of jokes while the worm infects the system and attempts to send copies of itself to all addresses in Outlook address book, as well as through the other channels mentioned above.
* Pirch is an internet relay chat client for Microsoft Windows 95/98/NT, mIRC is a shareware IRC chat client for Windows and ICQ lets you initiate IRC style chat sessions - it alerts you when your friends are online and lets you chat with them.
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