[iwar] FW: Computer Associates Warns Of First Virus Of 2001


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Subject: [iwar] FW: Computer Associates Warns Of First Virus Of 2001 
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Computer Associates Warns Of First Virus Of 2001  

By Newsbytes/eFront BetaNews, 01/03/2001
http://betanews.efront.com/article.php3?sid=978454700

Computer Associates has issued the first virus warning of 2001 to its
customers, advising them of a low-to-medium risk e-mail worm called
Tqll-A. Also known as VBS/Tqll-A, the virus is said to be the latest
MS-Outlook-based e-mail worm threat. 
CA says that Tqll-A arrives as an e-mail with the subject - "New Year!"
with the body of the message reading, "Wow Happy New Year !" and
containing an attachment called "happynewyear.txt.vbs." 
On execution, the worm installs and launches a backdoor Trojan -
detected as Backdoor/Psychware.G.Server - on the infected system, then
sends itself as an attachment to every address listed in an infected
user's MS-Outlook address book. 
CA advises that the Trojan, executing as "3k.exe", attempts to download
the file "Teen.exe" from several Internet sites. 
Ian Hameroff, the IT security firm's business manager, said that Tqll- A
attempts to prey on a computer user's holiday spirit. 
"Computer users should start the new year off with a resolution to
protect themselves completely from the threat of virus attacks," he
said. CA's Web site is at http://ca.com.

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