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Hey everyone,

I wanted to send this out to you all to read up on, there are 3 new virus's out there. Please read the following...

- Weekly virus report -

Oxygen3 24h-365d, by Panda Software (http://www.pandasoftware.com)

Madrid, August 3, 2003 - This week's report looks at three worms Numan,

Enegg and Lerok.

Numan spreads through the peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing program KaZaA and

the chat program mIRC. In order to spread through KaZaA, Numan changes the

shared directory of this program to C:\WINDOWS, and creates multiple copies

of itself in it.

Numan activates on the nineteenth of every month and deletes all the files

with a SYS, DLL or COM extension from the Windows directory. As a result,

the computer will stop working properly. Numan also looks for directories

belonging to several antivirus programs and, if it finds them, it deletes

all files in these directories.

The second worm in today's report is Enegg, which spreads via e-mail in a

message with variable characteristics and which includes an attachment

called CYNTHIA.EXE, SERIAL.EXE or HUEVOS-CARTOONS.EXE.

When it is run, Enegg displays several messages in Spanish and deletes the

installation directories of several antivirus programs and the files they

contain. As a result, these applications will stop working, leaving the

affected computer vulnerable to attack from other malicious code. Enegg also

overwrites the following files, adding a VBS extension to their name:

CMD.EXE, MSCONFIG.EXE, SYSEDIT.EXE. From then on, these files will have a

double extension.

We are going to finish this report with Lerok, a worm that spreads via

e-mail in a message with the subject "Mandar SMS Gratis!" and an attachment

called SMSSENDER.EXE. This malicious code also sends itself out to all the

addresses in the Contact List of the instant messaging program MSN

Messenger.

For more information about these and other viruses, visit Panda Software's

Virus Encyclopedia at:

http://www.pandasoftware.com/virus_info/encyclopedia/

Much Love,

Deanna

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