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Symantec has upgraded the W32.Netsky.B@mm to a Level 4 threat [On a scale of 1-5, 5 being highest].
W32.Netsky.B is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to email addresses it finds when scanning the hard drives and mapped drives. This may clog mail servers or degrade network performance. It also searches drives C through Z for folder names containing "Share" or "Sharing," and then copies itself to those folders.
Identifiable Characteristics of email:
From: (spoofed)
Subject: read it immediately
Body: information about you
Attachment: story.com
With the newly found mass-mailing worm, W32.Netsky.B@mm, Symantec advises customers to protect the network and update the definition file of all the Symantec AntiVirus solutions, using LiveUpdate and Intelligent Updater.
W32.Netsky.B is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to email addresses it finds when scanning the hard drives and mapped drives. This may clog mail servers or degrade network performance. It also searches drives C through Z for folder names containing "Share" or "Sharing," and then copies itself to those folders.
Identifiable Characteristics of email:
From: (spoofed)
Subject: read it immediately
Body: information about you
Attachment: story.com
With the newly found mass-mailing worm, W32.Netsky.B@mm, Symantec advises customers to protect the network and update the definition file of all the Symantec AntiVirus solutions, using LiveUpdate and Intelligent Updater.
