Tuesday March 6, 2:56 pm Eastern Time
Press Release
SOURCE: Network Associates, Inc.
Virus Alert: McAfee Avert Places High Risk Assessment on New Naked Wife Worm
W32/Naked@MM - Mass Mailing Worm Deletes Files
BEAVERTON, Ore., March 6 /PRNewswire/ -- McAfee AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team), a division of McAfee, a Network Associates, Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA - news) business, today assigned a HIGH risk assessment to the recently discovered W32/Naked@MM, also known as Naked Wife. Naked Wife is a destructive mass-mailing (@mm) worm that sends copies of itself to all the e-mail addresses in the infected users' address books. In addition, Naked Wife deletes files with extensions .BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, and .INI in the WINDOWS and WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories. It has been found in more than 25 corporations, including Fortune 500 companies.
Symptoms
Naked Wife is an Internet worm that once activated, sends itself to all recipients in the Outlook Address Book and attempts to deletes all .BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, and .INI files in the WINDOWS and WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories. The worm is coded in Visual Basic 6 and compiled as an executable file named ``NakedWife.exe''.
Subject: Fw: Naked Wife
Body of email:
My wife never look like that! ;-)
Best Regards,(sender's name)
Attachment: NakedWife.exe
Cure
Immediate information and cure for this virus can be found online at the McAfee AVERT site at vil.nai.com. McAfee VirusScan users should update their systems from that page and use the 4.0.70 or later scanning engine to stop potential damage.
McAfee AVERT is one of the top-ranked anti-virus research organizations in the world, employing more than 90 researchers in offices on five continents. McAfee AVERT protects customers through McAfee AutoUpdate technology, which allows McAfee anti-virus software to check for updated information on new viruses, and download cures automatically as soon as they are available. Cures are developed by the combined efforts of McAfee AVERT researchers and McAfee AutoImmune technology, which applies advanced heuristics and sophisticated programming to automatically generate cures for previously undiscovered viruses.
McAfee provides comprehensive solutions to protect e-businesses from attacks by malicious Internet applets and viruses. The McAfee Active Virus Defense (AVD) suite is an award-winning multi-tier virus security solution. Over the past 12 months, McAfee has aggressively focused on the burgeoning mobile and wireless marketplace, developing the VirusScan Thin Client (TC) and VirusScan Wireless software solutions. All McAfee products are backed by the world's leading anti-virus research organization, McAfee AVERT (Anti-Virus Emergency Response Team), the team which first identified Melissa, Bubbleboy and Phage, the first wireless virus. For more information, McAfee can be reached at 800-338-8754 or on the Internet at mcafeeb2b.com.
With headquarters in Santa Clara, Calif., Network Associates, Inc. is a leading supplier of security and availability solutions for e-businesses. Network Associates is comprised of four business units: McAfee, delivering world class anti-virus products; PGP Security, providing firewall, intrusion detection and encryption products; Sniffer Technologies, a leader in network and application management; and Magic Solutions, providing web-based service desk solutions. For more information, Network Associates can be reached at 972-308-9960 or on the Internet at nai.com.
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