Erik Mooney schrieb:
> >> I have been saving all my Stella list messages in a folder and this is the
> >> first post I've seen from you.
> >
> >No wonder. Since this was the first post seen from you too,
> >the virus couldn't send itself to you before :-)
> >
> >As far as I learned, the virus sends itself to people listed in the
> >inbox of the used mail tool of the infected machine.
>
> Actually, that's not quite true, this virus is a bit more clever. It grabs
> addresses by looking at files in the cache directory of Internet Explorer,
> which means it spreads very randomly and untraceably; much more so
> than just by looking at the Outlook address book. See here for full info.
>
> http://www.sarc.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sircam.worm@xxxxxxx
This truly is a beast of virus too, but thanks heaven it was _not_ the
virus Phillip had sending to me :-)
(I don't recall it's name, it was not touching the registry like the
sircam virus, but modifying win.ini instead)
Greetings,
Manuel
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