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BadtransII Reaches Global Epidemic Proportions (Kaspersky)
Overview Kaspersky Labs, an international data-security software developer, reports about the global epidemic being wrought by the Internet virus-worm BadtransII. To date, this malfeasant worm has outstripped other cases of infections by other viruses almost 10-fold. As readers may remember, the appearance of this malicious code was first reported in the wild on this past Sunday, already having caused numerous infections on users’ computers throughout the world. As of today, BadtransII has reached such epidemic levels as to have already caused nearly 11,000 reported cases of infection in Great Britain alone. Other countries seeing high levels of infection are Germany and the United States. I-Worm.BadtransII is a worm that spreads under Win32 systems. The virus sends e-mail messages with infected files attached, as well as installs a spying Trojan component to steal information from infected systems. The worm itself is a Win32 executable file (PE EXE file). It was found in the wild in compressed form, and is about 29Kb in size. Upon being decompressed, the worm file length becomes about 60Kb in size.
| Publisher | Kaspersky Lab | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | November 2001 | Downloads | 1 |
| Format | White Papers | ||
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