Anti-virus vendor Sophos said the worm can extract email addresses from web pages on the hard drive as well as from the Microsoft Outlook address book. Both worms spread as an .exe attachment, and arrive in in-boxes with many different email...
The worm, called VBS/Britney-A spreads via both Microsoft Outlook and Internet Relay Chat (IRC) networks and it emails itself to all addresses in the Outlook address list. If it is found, the worm drops a file called SCRIPT.INI which will help it...
It works through the now traditional mass-mailing method, taking email addresses from the victim's Outlook address book, so while it has no damaging payload, it can cause havoc by jamming up mail servers with thousands of messages.
The worm, which is thought to originate from Sweden, is in the wild, and travels in an email with a variety of subject lines and body text, all intended to trick recipients into running the virus-ridden attachment.
The worm's main impact is to mass-mail itself to email addresses found in address books on the system, but such worms, when successful, can use large amounts of bandwidth. The email can have one of several subject lines, such as "Approved" "Re...
The virus grabs email addresses from several different locations on a computer, including the Windows address book and internet cache, and sends emails to each one - thus propagating itself around the world.
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