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W32.Kifer

Feb 10, 2004 9:38AM PST

Discovered on: February 10, 2004
Last Updated on: February 10, 2004 01:37:32 PM

W32.Kifer is a Trojan horse that drops BAT.Snoital@mm, which will attempt to delete antivirus software from your computer. It also spreads through MAPI-enabled email clients, such as Microsoft Outlook, and IRC.

The email has the following characteristics:

Subject: Symantec Security Alert
Attachment: Symantec_W32_Cure.bat


Also Known As: TrojanDropper.Win32.Kifer [Kaspersky]

Type: Trojan Horse

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.kifer.html

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