F-Secure Warns of New Worm, MyParty, That Gives a Whole New Meaning to 'Dot Com'.Business/Technology Editors SAN JOSE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 28, 2002 F-Secure Corporation (HEX:FSC FSC See: Foreign Sales Corporation ) is warning computer users about a new worm, known as W32/Myparty, which spreads as an e-mail attachment, and it uses a novel filename to trick people into clicking it. There are two new significant features in this worm. "The real trick here is that end users have no idea that .COM (1) (Computer Output Microfilm) Creating microfilm or microfiche from the computer. A COM machine receives print-image output from the computer either online or via tape or disk and creates a film image of each page. is not just part of web addresses, it's also an executable file extension", said Mikko Hypponen, Manager of Anti-Virus Research at F-Secure. "This worm sends an attachment file called WWW WWW or W3: see World Wide Web. (World Wide Web) The common host name for a Web server. The "www-dot" prefix on Web addresses is widely used to provide a recognizable way of identifying a Web site. .MYPARTY.YAHOO.COM, and people will assume it's a link to a website and click on it - actually executing the worm program instead". Second, the worm was created in Russia and it will not infect computers in Russia at all. It had been programmed to spread only between January 25 and 29. It means that after Wednesday the worm will not spread at all. The worm was spotted in Singapore on Monday, January 28 and it continues to spread towards West as business hours BUSINESS HOURS. The time of the day during which business is transacted. In respect to the time of presentment and demand of bills and notes, business hours generally range through the whole day down to the hours of rest in the evening, except when the paper is payable it a bank or by a go by. Unlike e-mail worms such as Badtrans or Nimda, which were able to start by just reading the e-mail, Myparty requires the user to click on the attachment. Myparty will only work under Windows NT, Windows 2000 or Windows XP. F-Secure Anti-Virus detects the Myparty worm. .COM files are executable files which were widely used before .EXE Exe (ĕks), river, c.55 mi (90 km) long, rising in the Exmoor, Somerset, SW England, and flowing S across the Cornwall peninsula, past Exeter to the English Channel at Exmouth. format executable files were introduced in MS-DOS MS-DOS in full Microsoft Disk Operating System Operating system for personal computers. MS-DOS was based on DOS, developed in 1980 by Seattle Computer Products. Microsoft Corp. bought the rights to DOS in 1981, and released MS-DOS with IBM's PC that year. 2.0 in 1983. COM files are still supported even by the latest versions of Windows. "As users very rarely e-mail COM format executables to each other, system administrators can easily defend against attacks of this type by filtering all e-mail attachments with an extension of .COM at firewall or e-mail gateway", commented Hypponen. The e-mails sent by the worm look like this: Subject:new photos from my party Body: Hello! My party... It was absolutely amazing! I have attached my web page with new photos! If you can please make color prints of my photos. Thanks! Attachment: www.myparty.yahoo.com The attachment resembles a web link in many email clients. Screenshots of the attachment shown under various e-mail programs are available at: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/myparty.shtml About F-Secure Corporation F-Secure Corporation is a leading developer of centrally managed security solutions for the mobile enterprise. The company's award-winning, integrated anti-virus, file encryption and network security solutions for handhelds, laptops, desktops, servers, mail servers and firewalls provide centralized policy based management of widely dispersed user communities. Founded in 1988, F-Secure is listed on the Helsinki Stock Exchange “HEX” redirects here. For other uses, see HEX (disambiguation).
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