New Web Virus Discovered

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From: Eugene Leitl (eugene.leitl@lrz.uni-muenchen.de)
Date: Fri Jan 07 2000 - 13:02:36 PST


Fortunately, this virus only targets a user group who are not
interested in securety. (Proving it by still having enough faith (or
stupidity) in running Microsoft programs, on a Microsoft OS).

Sally Khudairi writes:
> The virus infects surfers using Microsoft Corp's Internet Explorer on
> machines running Windows with Scripting Host installed (Win98 and up) and a
> low internet security setting. The virus comes in two parts - a regular
> Trojan horse virus that is passed around on disk or by email, and a VBScript
> that is embedded in an HTML web page.
 


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