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Broken Sept 11 worm poses little risk
By John Leyden
Posted: 11/09/2002 at 10:57 GMT
Virus writers have exploited interest in the anniversary of
the September 11 terrorist attacks with their latest attempts
to create a damaging email worm.
Fortunately due to bugs in the code of Chet-A it fails to work
properly and is considered a minimal threat.
In the unlikely event you receive it, Chet-A arrives in the
form of an email attachment called 11september.exe to a letter
advancing a preposterous conspiracy theory that the motive for
attacks on the US was to conceal money laundering.
AV vendors reports few instances of the Windows-specific virus
in the wild, those most likely arising from the VXers themselves
mailing their malware to vendors, a common tactic about such
s'kiddiots.
Even though it doesn't work, AV vendors have updated their tools
to detect Chet-A. Users are also advised, as always, to treat
unsolicited email attachments with deep scepticism. ®
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Regards
Trev..
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