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New Worm To Worry About

Keylogger program captures passwords & other sensitive data

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Badtrans Worm Hunts Down Microsoft Outlook Users

by Dave Murphy
ISSN 1535-3613

Dave Murphy, DGL President & ITrain founder Microsoft Outlook users have another Internet worm to worry about: Badtrans. Antivirus experts at McAfee are receiving widespread reports of the worm from home and business computer users.

The worm is receiving a boost by home users who are sending holiday e-mail to family and friends. Recipients who are excited to receive the holiday mail are forgetting to scan the email attachments and to practice other computer security procedures.

The worm's message body may contain the text: "Take a look to the attachment." The worm's payload is a keylogger program that captures and stores credit card numbers, passwords, and other personal data. The worm's author then receives an email identifying the infected systems.

Badtrans then transmits itself to addresses in the Microsoft Outlook address book.

The worm will arrives in an attachment that may be named:

  • Card.pif
  • docs.scr
  • fun.pif
  • hamster.ZIP.scr
  • Humor.TXT.pif
  • images.pif
  • New_Napster_Site.DOC.scr
  • news_doc.scr
  • Me_nude.AVI.pif
  • Pics.ZIP.scr
  • README.TXT.pif
  • s3msong.MP3.pif
  • searchURL.scr
  • SETUP.pif
  • Sorry_about_yesterday.DOC.pif
  • YOU_are_FAT!.TXT.pif

Dave's Opinion

McAfee VirusScan's update 4168 will detect and can clean the Badtrans worm; however, many users don't subscribe to McAfee's ActiveShield program or download the SuperDAT (antivirus database) weekly updates. If you haven't updated your antivirus software in the last week or so, check your software vendor's website for the most recent virus database download.

I suggest update your antivirus software every week.

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updated November 26, 2001
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