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How to Identify an Email Virus |
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| Not all Email
Virus are easily identified. However some are dead give-aways. We have listed here the most common and recent ones. |
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| Virus Name | Common ID | Comments |
| Goner.A | Email come
from a friend, as it reads their address book. Common identifying characteristic is the subject. Subject: Hi |
Contains an attachment called GONE.SCR which is the virus |
| Badtrans | Email come
from a friend, as it reads their address book. Common identifying characteristic is the email address of the sender. It usually starts with an underscore eg._joebloggs@nowhere.com From: _anyone@anyemailaddress.com |
Email with attachment is usually around 42,000bytes long, which is the virus |
| W32Magistr. | Email come
from a friend, as it reads their address book. The contents of the email from friend is a real email that they have sent to someone, but that the virus has picked out at random then broadcast itself to everyone in the address book. Message: unusual but legitimate. ( if you think "Why did he send this to me?"...that's the virus) |
Attachment has .bat .com .exe .pif |
| Nimda | Attachment called readme.exe (not always visible | |
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