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W32/Cone-A

Mar 11, 2004 12:08AM PST

Aliases
W32.Cone@mm

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/Cone-A is a worm which spreads by email and peer-to-peer share folders. When the infected attachment is launched, the worm harvests email addresses from address books and from files with the extensions DBX, MBX, WAB, HTML, EML, HTM, ASP, SHTML and TXT.
W32/Cone-A will copy itself to the KaZaA peer-to-peer network shared folder, choosing from the following names:
Playboy-Screensaver-Nov-03.scr
BAD-GIRLS(Playboy)-ScreenSaver.scr
Winamp5.01.exe
Screensaver-Hot Girls-part<random number>.scr


More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32conea.html

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