full-disclosure - MSBLASTER - aka LOVESAN/POZA ?

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Message-ID: <20030813081712.GH1611@pobox.com>
From: cstone at pobox.com (cstone)
Subject: MSBLASTER - aka LOVESAN/POZA ?

On Wed, Aug 13, 2003 at 10:10:20AM +1000, Darren Reed wrote:
> 
> I've seen some people referring to MSBLASTER as "LOVESAN" and "POZA" as
> all being the same thing.
> 
> Does this make sense to anyone else ?

yes.  everyone picks their own name -- this happens pretty
frequently with malware.

from symantec's description of "W32.Blaster.Worm" (their name for
it), available at:
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

Also Known As: W32/Lovsan.worm [McAfee], Win32.Poza [CA], Lovsan
[F-Secure], WORM_MSBLAST.A [Trend], W32/Blaster-A [Sophos],
W32/Blaster [Panda]