Sophos anti-virus said: "The worm looks at different directories on C:, D:, and E: for a file called MIRC.INI. If it is found, the worm drops a file called SCRIPT.INI which will help it spread via IRC.
Both worms spread as an .exe attachment, and arrive in in-boxes with many different email subject lines. The body text of the email is usually blank and the file name of the attachment is most likely to be PROGRAM.EXE.
It is received as an executable attachment and requires users to launch the virus through the attachment in order to infect their machine. The back door Trojan has mass-mailing functionality and will send itself, once activated, to addresses...
The attachment, once opened, executes a script that sends itself to email all addresses in outlook address book, according to Alex Shipp, anti-virus technologist at the virus watchdog MessageLabs. Several blue chip companies in the UK, US and...
Now that hackers know it's possible to spread a virus without the use of attachment, they'll all start doing it. BubbleBoy is the first instance of malicious code which can infect a user's PC without needing an executable attachment.
If the user runs the attachment the message forwards itself to every name in the users' Microsoft Outlook address book. Sophos suggests blocking files with two suffixes, such as ".jpg.vbs", which are used by virus writers to fool users into...