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Resentment.A
Threat Level I
Damage II
Distribution I
Common name: Resentment.A
Technical name: W32/Resentment.A.worm
Threat level: Medium
Type: Worm
Effects: It attempts to send an email message to a certain address indicating that two employees of a certain company should be fired. It also modifies the caption of the Internet Explorer windows and the Internet Explorer start page. It spreads through shared and mapped drives.
Affected platforms: Windows 2003/XP/2000/NT/ME/98/95
First detected on: Feb. 11, 2008
Detection updated on: Feb. 11, 2008
In circulation? No
Proactive protection: Yes, using Antivirus Softwares
Brief Description
Resentment.A is a worm whose aim is attempting to send an email message to a certain address indicating that two employees of a certain company should be fired.
Additionally, it also modifies the caption of the Internet Explorer windows and the Internet Explorer start page, changing it to another website similar to the one displayed when a 404 error page not found is produced.
Resentment.A reaches the computer in a file that has the icon belonging to a Windows folder. It spreads through shared and mapped drives, making copies of itself in them.
Visible Symptoms
Resentment.A is easy to recognize once it has affected the computer, as it shows the following symptoms
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