VBS worm targets Gnutella users.
It's little more than an irritant, but the Visual Basic Script worm forces Gnutella users to look before they download.
By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News
June 2, 2000 5:04 PM PT
An unknown author has created a worm aimed at infecting Gnutella users. Possibly malicious in intent, but benign in reality, the worm uses the Visual Basic Script language to store itself on an infected computer in 23 different files named, for example, Pamela Anderson movie listing.vbs, collegesex.vbs, Battlefield Earth.vbs, Napster Metallica Crack.vbs and NSync.vbs.
The worm can only spread to computers whose users execute the code by double-clicking on the file.
Anti-virus firm Trend Micro Inc. (Nasdaq: TMIC) had not had any reports of public infections, but had posted an alert about the worm, which it calls VBS_GNUTELWORM, on May 31. The worm contains a simpler name, Gnutella Worm v1.1.
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It's little more than an irritant, but the Visual Basic Script worm forces Gnutella users to look before they download.
By Robert Lemos, ZDNet News
June 2, 2000 5:04 PM PT
An unknown author has created a worm aimed at infecting Gnutella users. Possibly malicious in intent, but benign in reality, the worm uses the Visual Basic Script language to store itself on an infected computer in 23 different files named, for example, Pamela Anderson movie listing.vbs, collegesex.vbs, Battlefield Earth.vbs, Napster Metallica Crack.vbs and NSync.vbs.
The worm can only spread to computers whose users execute the code by double-clicking on the file.
Anti-virus firm Trend Micro Inc. (Nasdaq: TMIC) had not had any reports of public infections, but had posted an alert about the worm, which it calls VBS_GNUTELWORM, on May 31. The worm contains a simpler name, Gnutella Worm v1.1.
Want to learn more?
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Alien - Administrator / Owner
["Everything was true. God was an alien. Oz really is over the
rainbow. ...and Midian is where the monsters live." -Nightbreed]
