1. more on the virus
http://grc.com/su-911.htm
"Windows Shares Worm" Found!
At 8:00 AM, Saturday morning, April 1st - this is NOT an April Fools joke -
the FBI announced the existence of a self-replicating, i.e. viral worm, that
moves from machine to machine across the Internet by exploiting open Windows
shares!
Because of the unfortunate timing of this announcement on April 1st, this
could be mistaken for an April Fools prank - it is not! Therefore, here is a
link to the FBI notice at the National Infrastructure Protection Center
(NIPC)
It was bound to happen sooner or later . . . it has happened NOW: Viral code
combining a Windows shares scanner with Windows file sharing to locate and
copy itself into other Internet-connected Windows machines across the
Internet! Because of the vast number of Windows machines with exposed,
shared, directories visible to the Internet, this represents a significant
new threat.
etc...
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Description
BAT.Chode.Worm is an internet-worm that uses BAT files. It searches through
a range of IP addresses of known ISPs to find an accessible computer. If an
accessible computer has its C drive shared, it will copy its files into the
other computer.
etc.........
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Kat
