MYTOB.AR Worm Virus Alert
As of May 30, 2005, TrendLabs has declared a Medium Risk Virus Alert to control the spread of WORM_MYTOB.AR. TrendLabs has received several infection reports indicating that this malware is spreading in Australia, China, Hongkong, India, Japan, Korea, Philippines, Taiwan, United States.
Like other WORM_MYTOB variants, this memory-resident worm propagates by sending a copy of itself as an attachment (file size is around 29,868 to 29,882 bytes) to an email message, which it sends to target recipients using its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine.
The following is a brief summary of what this worm is capable of doing:
This memory-resident worm propagates by sending a copy of itself as an attachment to an email message, which it sends to target recipients using its own Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine.
