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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. |
| 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 |
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Attachment
called readme.exe (not always visible |
