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VBS Worm Targets Gnutella Users
News Possibly malicious in intent, but benign in reality, the worm uses the Visual Basic Script language to store itself on an infected computer in 23 different files named, for example, Pamela Anderson movie listing.vbs, collegesex.vbs, Battlefield...
[June 5, 2000, 8:49]
VBS.Manis@mm / HERMOSO DESEO (Symantec)
White Papers VBS.Manis@m is a Visual Basic Script (VBS) worm that copies itself to the Windows \Temp folder as Humanismo.html.vbs. The email message is as follows: Subject: HERMOSO DESEO Message: HEY OLVIDA LA GUERRA, ABRAZA LA PAZ Attachment: Humanismo.html...
[April 27, 2004, 0:05]
Purported 'Anna' Virus Toolkit Author Yanks Files From Site
News In the wake of the worldwide spread of the AnnaKournikova virus, an 18-year-old Argentinian claiming to be the creator of the Vbs Worm Generator--the program used to create the Anna virus -- has removed the application's files from his Web site.
[February 16, 2001, 8:25]
New 'anthrax' Email Worm Is A Dud
News The worm is technically known as VBS.VBSWG.AF, or more colloquially as "Antrax. The worm is attached to the message as a Visual Basic Script (VBS) file, and had been created with the VBS Worm Generator -- the same point-and-click application that...
[October 17, 2001, 9:57]
Homepage Worm Spreads Quicker Than Lovebug
News A new email worm, known to virus experts as VBS.VBSWG2 and dubbed Homepage, is reported to infected scores of companies today, and anti-virus experts say that there may be more infections in the first 24 hours than was seen with the Lovebug virus...
[May 9, 2001, 11:29]
LoveLetter Worm Variant Spams Spies
News Dubbed "VBS/LoveLet-CL" by UK antivirus company, Sophos, the mass-mailing program infects a computer system after the PC user opens the e-mail attachment containing the worm. The worm appears as an attachment -- "echelon.vbs" -- to an e-mail with...
[May 17, 2001, 9:02]
New Variant Of 'ILOVEYOU' Worm
News An unknown copycat has created a new worm virus that may continue to spread by changing the name of the attached .vbs file to "Very Funny.vbs" and the subject of the email to "joke. In all other respects, the worm appears to be the same.
[May 5, 2000, 9:07]
Phoney Symantec Warning And 'Important!' Virus Variants
News The VBS.LoveLetter.A is an Internet worm that uses Microsoft Outlook to e-mail itself as an attachment. VBS/Loveletter.f Symantec Corp.today announced availability of the virus definition to detect, repair and protect users against the VBS...
[May 10, 2000, 8:42]
Email Worm Attacks Child Porn
News The worm dubbed "Noped", encrypted as Visual Basic Script (VBS) code, arrives as an attachment to an email entitled "FWD: Help us all to end illegal child porn now. The attached file is named "END ILLEGAL child porn NOW.TXT.vbs", with a string of a...
[May 29, 2001, 16:18]
Homepage Virus: How To Prevent It
News In the first 24 hours the email worm -- known to experts as VBS.VBSWG2 and dubbed Homepage -- appears to be more prolific than the notorious LoveBug virus. But the email contains a file, called Homepage.html.vbs, which is in fact a malicious Visual...
[May 9, 2001, 15:23]
Dutch Treat? Netherlander Takes Credit For 'Anna'
News The statement confirmed the OnTheFly used a readily available virus-writing tool, known as the Vbs Worm Generator, to create the Anna Kournikova virus, but exonerated the tool's author of aiding him. Also known as VBS/SST, VBS_Kalamar, and VBS...
[February 14, 2001, 8:03]
Worm Alert! LOVELETTER Gets Nastier
News For example, the worm might find the file "mydoc.txt" on the user's system and send off a message with the subject line "FW: mydoc.txt" and an attachment of "mydoc.txt.vbs". The attached file has that name plus the .VBS extension.
[May 19, 2000, 8:33]
NewLove: What Went Right?
News For example, the worm might find the file "mydoc.txt" on the user's system and send off a message with the subject line "FW: mydoc.txt" and an attachment of "mydoc.txt.vbs". Referred to as VBS/NewLove, the worm-type outbreak has failed to cause...
[May 22, 2000, 8:46]
Have You Got A Bug In Your Ear?
News The worm arrives in a file called Timofonica.txt.vbs attached to a Trojan horse-like e-mail written in Spanish decrying the state of the telephone monopoly, Telefonica. Under the default settings for Windows, the ".vbs" extension will be invisible...
[June 7, 2000, 8:54]
Homepage Worm Dies Out
News The worm is attached as the file "HOMEPAGE.HTML.VBS. The new email worm, known to virus experts as VBS.VBSWG2, infected hundreds of companies Tuesday and Wednesday, according to antivirus firms. In some email programs, it may appear without the VBS...
[May 10, 2001, 8:17]
VBS/Horty-A
White Papers VBS/Horty-A is an email worm that uses Microsoft Outlook to spread. The worm sends an email to all contacts in the user's Windows address book. The email has the following characteristics: Subject line: Jenna Jameson pornstar free superf**k+photo...
[May 6, 2004, 1:03]
Virus Alert: How The Anna Virus Was Created
News VBS Worm Generator (VBSWG) 1.50b is a standalone application that allows script kiddies, (malicious users with very little programming skills), to create their own successful viruses. It creates VBS worms that infect Windows systems with Microsoft...
[February 13, 2001, 8:10]
MS Issues Outlook Security Patch
News In the ILOVEYOU incident, the original worm -- contained in an email -- used a bit of wordplay to convince the reader to click on a Visual Basic Script attachment labeled "LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs".
[June 9, 2000, 8:28]
A Year Ago: ILOVEYOU Reports Keep Coming In
News It damages files with the extensions: .vbs, .vbe, .js, .jse, .css, .wsh, .sct, .hta, .jpg, .jpeg .mp3, .mp2. If you receive an email with the attachment to your email is: LOVE-LETTER-FOR-YOU.TXT.vbs you are advised not to open this attachment.
[May 4, 2001, 6:15]
Fake Virus Warning Carries Worm
News Symantec has confirmed the existence of the worm, known as VBS.Hard.A@mm, VBS/Hard-A, or VBS/Hard@mm, and created software to detect it. When the attached file, www.symantec.com.vbs, is activated it changes the Microsoft Internet Explorer home page...
[May 15, 2001, 11:03]
