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Stages worm: trail leads to Argentina

The author of “Life Stages” worm, prior to ZDNet yesterday warned holds, in all probability, in Argentina. The FBI pursued claims to corresponding tracks.

The alleged perpetrator is codenamed “Zulu” and should already be active for a long time in the hacker scene in the United States. End of May he had already published the source code of the virus to a known relevant site. This report, an employee of the security site ICSA.net Bruce Hughes. But it took several weeks for the Stages virus has spread so far that he has become a global threat.

On account of the “Zulu” go virus “Bubbleboy,” “Monopoly” and “Free Links”.

In the case of the virus Stages a user receives an email with the subject: “Funny,” “Jokes” or “Life Stages”. The text of the message is “The male and female stages of life ‘, the attachment is called” LIFE_STAGES.TXT.SHS “, which can be hidden sometimes the file format.” Shs “.

The worm spreads via Microsoft Outlook again, addressing himself to the corresponding entries in the address sent, as well as ICQ, mIRC and Pirch, an Internet Relay Chat client for Microsoft. In addition, the worm infects all available disks in the system. Someone starts the file attachment with a double, he sees a number of jokes in the background while the worm infects the system and sends itself. McAfee has rated the worm as highly dangerous. On the site of numerous anti-virus provider, there is a description of how the dangerous lines of code can be removed after an infection again, and patches against the worm.

ZDNet reported in a constantly updated news to report ‘ILOVEYOU’ on the further development and is in addition to basic knowledge and links to antivirus vendors.

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