[TriLUG] oh yawn ... another microsoft virus making the rounds

[rpjday]

BADTRANS WORM LEAVES BACKDOORS, LOGS DATA

Posted November 26, 2001 09:42 Pacific Time

A NEW VARIANT of a mass-mailer Internet worm that
installs a backdoor program which can allow attackers
to access recipients' computers was spreading on the
Internet Monday, according to virus alerts from a
number of anti-virus companies.

The worm, called Badtrans.B, is a new variant of the
older Badtrans virus, according to anti-virus
companies. The variant is executed when a user opens
an infected e-mail and does not require a user to
click on an attachment, as many mass mailer worms do,
according to Activis and TruSecure virus alerts. The
worm exploits a security vulnerability in Microsoft's
Outlook and Outlook Express e-mail clients to
automatically execute the attachment when the e-mail
is opened, they said.


For the full story:
http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/11/26/011126hnbadtrans.xml?1126mnpm