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VIRUS ALERTS - December 21, 2005

by roddy32 Dec 20, 2005 9:47PM PST

W32/Bloat-A

Type
Virus

W32/Bloat-A is a prepending virus for the Windows platform.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32bloata.html

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W32/Tilebot-CQ

by Marianna Schmudlach Dec 21, 2005 8:34AM PST

Type Spyware Worm

Aliases Backdoor.Win32.SdBot.ajk

W32/Tilebot-CQ is a worm and IRC backdoor for the Windows platform.
W32/Tilebot-CQ spreads to other network computers by exploiting common buffer overflow vulnerabilities, including WKS (MS03-049) (CAN-2003-0812), PNP (MS05-039) and ASN.1 (MS04-007) and copying itself to network shares protected by weak passwords.
W32/Tilebot-CQ includes functionality to access the internet and communicate with a remote server via HTTP.
The following patches for the operating system vulnerabilities exploited by W32/Tilebot-CQ are available from Microsoft:
MS03-049
MS04-007
MS05-039

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32tilebotcq.html

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W32/Yahos-A

by Marianna Schmudlach Dec 21, 2005 8:35AM PST

Type Worm

Aliases TROJ_VB.ZL

W32/Yahos-A is a worm for the Windows platform.

http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32yahosa.html

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