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Date: Thu Feb 16 15:04:07 2006
From: Vulnerability at messagelabs.com (Vulnerability Management)
Subject: First WMF mass mailer ItW (phishing Trojan)

Hi Gadi,

Gadi Evron wrote:
> The first worm (mass mailer) to (ab)use the WMF 0day is now spreading in
> Australia.

[...]

 > The emails themselves do not contain the payload, but rather a URL to
 > sites that will infect users.


How can this be called a worm? AFAIK, malware that needs human 
intervention to spread is a trojan, not a worm.


\a

(Personal opinions only)



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Andrew Simmons
MessageLabs Security Team

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