Lovgate worm variant has A-V vendors worried
A mass-mailing worm known as Lovgate.AB has been upgraded to a medium-level threat by anti-virus company Network Associates.
This follows the receipt of over 100 samples of the worm from both customers and through virus-generated emails around the world.
The worm affects systems running Windows NT, Windows 2000, Windows Server 2003 and Windows XP. Other variants of Windows and systems running Linux, OSX, any Unix or OS/2 are not affected.
According to another A-V vendor, Symantec, the worm attempts to reply to all email messages in a user's Microsoft Outlook inbox, Scans files with .txt, .pl, .wab, .adb, .tbb, .dbx, .asp, .php, .sht, and .htm extensions for email addresses and uses its own mailing engine to send itself to the addresses it finds and tries to copy itself to Kazaa shared folders and all computers on a local network.
Symantec has the worm at a level 2 threat on a five-point ranking system.
