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Trend Micro HIGH Risk Virus Alert - WORM_NETSKY.C

Feb 26, 2004 12:26AM PST

Due to numerous infection reports regarding this malware, Trend Micro has declared a RED alert as of February 25, 2004, 11:25 PM (Pacific Standart Time). This new variant of the NETSKY worm has just been found spreading in Australia.

This memory-resident worm propagates through SMTP mail and drops copies of itself in network shares.

It runs on Windows 95, 98, ME, NT, 2000, and XP.

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_NETSKY.C

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