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Win32.Maldal.E (CAI)
Overview
Date: December 29, 2001
Name: Win32.Maldal.E
A mass-mailing worm with a destructive file deleting payload.
Maldal.E is a worm which spreads via the e-mail system. The worm uses Microsoft Outlook in order to send itself out to all contacts found in the Address Book.
Maldal.E arrives attached to an e-mail where the Subject line is the computername of the infected PC that sent the message.
Maldal.E contains a destructive payload which searches for and deletes files with the following extensions:
"com", "bat", "mdb", "xls", "doc", "lnk", "ppt", "jpg", "mpeg", "ini", "dat", “zip", "txt".
Additionally, the worm deletes files belonging to anti-virus packages as well as the whole “Program Files\Zone Labs\” directory.
Click through to the alert text for disinfection information.
| Publisher | Computer Associates | File Format | HTML |
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| Date Published | December 2001 | Downloads | 1 |
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