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W32/Netsky-A

Feb 18, 2004 11:43PM PST

Aliases
Win32/Netsky.A

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/Netsky-A is a worm that spreads using email and Windows network shares.
W32/Netsky-A searches all mapped drives for files with the following extensions in order to find email adresses: MSG, OFT, ***, DBX, TBB, ADB, DOC, WAB, ASP, UIN, RTF, VBS, HTML, HTM, PL, PHP, TXT, EML

The worm will also attempt to copy itself into the root folders of drives C: to Z: using the following filenames:


Read more: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32netskya.html

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