WORM_NETSKY.Y in the Wild

zerodamage · Apr 21, 2004, 03:20 PM

As of April 20, 2004 2:05 PM PST, TrendLabs has declared a Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of this malware.
This NETSKY variant uses its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine to propagate via email.

See the full details at TrendMicro

**MIG-31** · Apr 21, 2004, 03:31 PM

these are coming thick and fast. i only just posted the netsky.x this morning.

show how important firewalls & antiviras software is needed.

krazy1 · Apr 21, 2004, 03:33 PM

Ugh.. I fought this one for 4 hrs yesterday here at work. The funny part is, it was a person on the SECURITY team that brought the darn thing in. She was checking e-mails that were stoped by our Trend Micro boxes and she decided she wanted to check what the attachment was

Soooo I spent 4 hrs cleaning 100 machines here in corp. The sad part is Symantec didn't have the correct Def for Netsky.y till late lastnight so it wasn't catching any of this. Now today they have the update correct.....

Apr 21, 2004, 03:20 PM	#1
zerodamage HardwareHeaven Extreme Member Join Date: May 2003 Location: Virginia, USA Posts: 3,478 Rep Power: 0 System Specs	WORM_NETSKY.Y in the Wild As of April 20, 2004 2:05 PM PST, TrendLabs has declared a Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of this malware. This NETSKY variant uses its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine to propagate via email. See the full details at TrendMicro

Apr 21, 2004, 03:31 PM	#2
MIG-31 HardwareHeaven News Mod Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Nottingham,UK Posts: 56,854 Rep Power: 471 System Specs	these are coming thick and fast. i only just posted the netsky.x this morning. show how important firewalls & antiviras software is needed. __________________ Please Post Your News Submissions Here

Apr 21, 2004, 03:33 PM	#3
krazy1 Live from the Dungeon Join Date: May 2003 Location: Between the SubWoofers Posts: 1,395 Rep Power: 0	Ugh.. I fought this one for 4 hrs yesterday here at work. The funny part is, it was a person on the SECURITY team that brought the darn thing in. She was checking e-mails that were stoped by our Trend Micro boxes and she decided she wanted to check what the attachment was Soooo I spent 4 hrs cleaning 100 machines here in corp. The sad part is Symantec didn't have the correct Def for Netsky.y till late lastnight so it wasn't catching any of this. Now today they have the update correct..... __________________