full-disclosure - Re: New virus?

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Message-ID: <EC24D5FB-EAD7-11D7-BC90-000393C34F68@mac.com>
From: smearp at mac.com (Sean Earp)
Subject: Re: New virus?

To quote the Symantec write-up (FWIW they have some great screen shots 
of the virus email and installation/infection) at 
<http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html>

"The worm can also impersonate mail delivery failure notices, attaching 
itself as a randomly named executable.

One example is:

I'm sorry I wasn't able to deliver your message to one or more 
destinations."

On Friday, September 19, 2003, at 09:00 AM, 
full-disclosure-request@...ts.netsys.com wrote:

> Yes, it's swan virus.
>
> --
> Eero
>
> If you meant swen, this doesn't look like swen. Nothing mentioning
> micro$oft
>
> The test of the email is :
>>
>> Hi.
>> I'm sorry to have to inform you that I wasn't able to deliver your
>> message to the following addresses:
>>
>>
>>
>> Undelivered message to rlfblncx@...foot.net