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VIRUS ALERT No.61 -- Wednesday, March 21, 2001
I-Worm.Staple (a.k.a. Injustice)
Several Anti-virus companies have issued a warning of the appearance "in the wild" of the Visual Basic virus-worm, I-Worm.Staple (a.k.a. Injustice). The virus-worm uses Microsoft Outlook to replicate.
The worm arrives in an e-mail message with the following characteristics:
Subject: RE:Injustice
Message body: Dear [name]
Did you send the attached message. I was not expecting this from you !
Attached filename: injustice.txt.vbs
If the attached file is executed, it counts the number of addresses
in the Outlook address book, and sets a
variable to either 50 or to the number of address book entries if
the number is less than 50.
It then uses Outlook to send the worm file to randomly chosen entries
from Outlook's address book. It sends
this email only once for every chosen address.
It also sends a message with the same subject and the text, "Dear sir Did you send the attached message, I was not expecting this from you !" to the following e-mail addresses:
sar@mod.gov.il
sar@mops.gov.il (twice)
sar@moin.gov.il
yor@knesset.gov.il (twice)
webmaster@israel.com
amuta@ehudbarak.co.il
foundation@habonimdror.org
wlzm@jazo.org.il
office@JAFI.org.il
naamatusa@naamat.org
info@azm.org
arie@kba.org
ncli@laborisrael.org
holyland@inisrael.com
sar@mof.gov.il
hachnasot@mof.ov.il
doar@mof.gov.il
mafkal@police.gov.il
rmarkus@parliament.gov.il
doar@shaam.gov.il
hashkal@mof.gov.il
pniotmas@mof.gov.il
menahel@shaam.gov.i
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