PC Worm Spreading Rapidly

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PC Worm Spreading Rapidly [bbc.co.uk]

Some variants of the Windows worm contain a link to PDF that a recipient has been told to expect.

Those clicking on the link get neither movies nor documents but give the malware access to their entire Outlook address book.

When installed, the worm sends copies of itself to every e-mail address it can find.

The malicious e-mail messages have a subject line saying "Here you have" and contain a weblink that looks like it connects to a PDF document. Instead it actually links to a website hosting the malware.

[piatkow]

On my PC I wonder if it would start the dialogue asking me to configure Outlook?

I have quite deliberately never used Outlook on any of the PCs that I have owned.

[HuskyPup]

^^^ Ditto ^^^

[cien]

Haven't gotten it yet :). My pc is a magnet for worms. Just yesterday had to run combofix to get rid of this nasty Google search result redirector trojan, which also disabled all my antivirus, anti-malware protection.

[graeme_p]

It is not a PC worm, it is a Windows worm. My PCs are perfectly safe from it.

@Piatkow, everything I have read on the subject says that most mail sending malware now has its own SMTP. However, not using Outlook may mean that it cannot find your address book.