Virus Alert: McAfee Avert Places High Risk Assessment on New Naked Wife Worm

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Virus Alert: McAfee Avert Places High Risk Assessment on New Naked Wife Worm

 

W32/Naked@MM - Mass Mailing Worm Deletes Files

 

BEAVERTON, Ore., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- McAfee AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency

Response Team), a division of McAfee, a Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA)

business, today assigned a HIGH risk

assessment to the recently discovered W32/Naked@MM, also known as Naked Wife.

Naked Wife is a destructive mass-mailing (@mm) worm that sends copies of itself

to all the e-mail addresses in the infected users' address books. In addition,

Naked Wife deletes files with extensions .BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, and .INI in the

WINDOWS and WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories. It has been found in more than 25

corporations, including Fortune 500 companies.

 

Symptoms

Naked Wife is an Internet worm that once activated, sends itself to

all recipients in the Outlook Address Book and attempts to deletes all

..BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, and .INI files in the WINDOWS and WINDOWS\SYSTEM

directories.

The worm is coded in Visual Basic 6 and compiled as an executable file

named “NakedWife.exe“.

 

Fw: Naked Wife

 

Body of email:

My wife never look like that! ;-)

Best Regards,(sender's name)

 

Attachment: NakedWife.exe

 

Cure

Immediate information and cure for this virus can be found online

at the

McAfee AVERT site at http://vil.nai.com/vil/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99035

McAfee VirusScan users should update their systems from that page and use the

4.0.70 or later scanning engine to stop potential damage.

McAfee AVERT is one of the top-ranked anti-virus research organizations in the

world, employing more than 90 researchers in offices on five continents.

McAfee AVERT protects customers through McAfee AutoUpdate technology, which

allows McAfee anti-virus software to check for updated information on new

viruses, and download cures automatically as soon as they are available.

Cures are developed by the combined efforts of McAfee AVERT researchers and

McAfee AutoImmune technology, which applies advanced heuristics and

sophisticated programming to automatically generate cures for

previously undiscovered viruses.

McAfee provides comprehensive solutions to protect e-businesses

from attacks by malicious Internet applets and viruses. The McAfee Active Virus

Defense (AVD) suite is an award-winning multi-tier virus security

solution. Over the past 12 months, McAfee has aggressively focused on the

burgeoning mobile and wireless marketplace, developing the VirusScan Thin Client

(TC) and VirusScan Wireless software solutions. All McAfee products are backed

by the world's leading anti-virus research organization, McAfee AVERT

(Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team), the team which first identified Melissa,

Bubbleboy and Phage, the first wireless virus. For more information, McAfee

can be reached at 800-338-8754 or on the Internet at http://www.mcafeeb2b.com

 

With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. is

a leading supplier of security and availability solutions for e-businesses.

Network Associates is comprised of four business units: McAfee,

delivering world class anti-virus products; PGP Security, providing firewall,

intrusion detection and encryption products; Sniffer Technologies, a leader in

network and application management; and Magic Solutions, providing web-based

service desk solutions. For more information, Network Associates can be

reached at 972-308-9960 or on the Internet at http://www.nai.com

NOTE: Network Associates, McAfee, PGP, Sniffer, VirusScan,

WebShield, NetShield, GroupShield, PrimeSupport, Enterprise SecureCast and Magic

Solutions are registered trademarks of Network Associates, Inc. and/or its

affiliates in the United States and/or other countries. All other registered

and unregistered trademarks in this document are the sole property of their

respective owners.

 

 

 

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