One sign of this virus - you may receive an attachment that
looks like a folder icon.
From this report, it sounds pretty much like the thumbdrive virus
that has been spreading previously. What's a folder no longer is a
folder, but an executable file.
Good luck again to porn lovers.
______________________________________________________________
From Microworld:
Security Experts at MicroWorld Technologies advise computer users
to be wary of an email that comes as a zipped file, promising
Japanese and Indonesian pornography. The attachment carries a Worm
named Win32.VB.co, which infects computers and starts a mass
mailing campaign to email addresses found in the victims address
book.
Japanese Porn, Miss Indonesian and Hello are some of the
subject lines of the emails sent out from the infected computer,
with message contents like F****g with me
, Please read again what I have written to you,
hey Indonesian porn, Agnes Monica's porn and more.
The names of the attachments may be Doc 8328328.zip, file
2151981.zip and Miyabi 5315261.zip, just as these numbers are
generated randomly. The recipients of the mail get infected once
they download and run the attachment.
This email Worm has got some note-worthy features. While sending
mails to the entities found in the address book it spoofs the
senders ID as the victims ID. Once you extract the file it shows
a folder icon, though in fact it is an exe file. The unsuspecting
user will try to open the imposter folder and will run the exe in
the bargain, says Vikas Vishwasrao, a Senior Security Analyst at
MicroWorld Technologies.
What follows is even more interesting! Win32.VB.co proceeds to
create an exe file inside every folder in the computer, with the
name of the file being the same as that of the folder. Here too,
the file shows up with a folder icon. The worm then tries to spread
by copying itself into popular file sharing applications. It can
log keystrokes and send that to a remote attacker in order to
facilitate Identity Theft. It also attempts to turn off AntiVirus
applications.
Other than the email route, Win32.VB.co can also spread via shared
folders and P2P applications. This will enable this Worm to spread
in a large network within a span of few hours forcing shut down of
networks in some cases.