Microsoft Security Advisory (904420)
Win32/Mywife.E mm
Published: January 30, 2006
Microsoft wants to make customers aware of the Mywife mass
mailing malware
variant named Win32/Mywife.Emm. The mass mailing
malware tries to entice
users through social engineering efforts into opening an
attached file in an
e-mail message. If the recipient opens the file, the malware
sends itself to
all the contacts that are contained in the system's address
book. The
malware may also spread over writeable network shares on
systems that have
blank administrator passwords.
Customers who are using the most recent and updated
antivirus software could
be at a reduced risk of infection from the
Win32/Mywife.Emm malware.
Customers should verify this with their antivirus vendor.
Antivirus vendors
have assigned different names to this malware but the Common
Malware
Enumeration (CME) group has assigned it ID CME-24.
On systems that are infected by Win32/MywifeE.mm, the
malware is intended
to permanently corrupt a number of common document format
files on the third
day of every month. February 3, 2006 is the first time this
malware is
expected to permanently corrupt the content of specific
document format
files. The malware also modifies or deletes files and
registry keys
associated with certain computer security-related
applications. This
prevents these applications from running when Windows
starts.
Complete article and links at:
http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory
/904420.mspx
or http://tinyurl.com/b49w3
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