W32/MyLife.A@mm

Threat risk

Threat risk low


Detection files published: 08 Mar 2002	Description created: 2002-03-07	Description updated: 2002-03-13

Malware type: Attività nocive: attenzione! (descrizioni brevi)	Alias:	Spreading mechanism Email

Payload:

Summary
Spreading description
Removal

Summary

This is an email worm written in Visual Basic and compressed using UPX 1.20.

File length is 30720 bytes.

Spreading description

Email characteristics:

Subject: my life ohhhhhhhhhhhhh
Body: Hiiiii
How are youuuuuuuu?
look to the digital picture it's my love
vvvery verrrry ffffunny:-)
my life = my car
my car = my house

Attachment: My Life.scr

The worm sends itself to all users in the Outlook address book. It also inserts a key in the system registry to start it at bootup:

HKCU\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run\stmgr = %SYSTEMDIR%\My Life.scr

Removal

General information about removal of malicious software

Norman's antivirus products are in general able to remove all malicious software that is detected.
Some malware, however, uses techniques that the general product does not remove sufficiantly. We have therefore developed the free product Norman Malware Cleaner. Please use the latest version of this program from the link below - if your Norman antivirus is unable to clean-up the infection.

Utilizzo	Titolo	Commento
	Blocco dei virus che infettano le condivisioni di rete
	Cleaning of back-up folders on Windows Me and XP

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