[ Thanks to George
Mitchell for this link. ]
“An unknown author has created a worm aimed at infecting
Gnutella users.”
“Possibly malicious in intent, but benign in reality, the
worm uses the Visual Basic Script language to store itself on an
infected computer in 23 different files named, for example, Pamela
Anderson movie listing.vbs, collegesex.vbs, Battlefield Earth.vbs,
Napster Metallica Crack.vbs and NSync.vbs.“
“Anti-virus firm Trend Micro Inc. (Nasdaq: TMIC) had not had any
reports of public infections, but had posted an alert about the
worm, which it calls VBS_GNUTELWORM, on May 31. The worm contains a
simpler name, Gnutella Worm v1.1.”
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