Author: Michael Yee
Date: 02:42:41 06/03/05
Sorry if this has already been discussed... I have a couple questions regarding the virus embedded in Fafis 2.0: (1) Is it likely that my system is fine considering my antivirus software caught the suspicious newly-created file before it was run? I can't find any other traces (e.g., modified hosts file, modified registry keys, etc.) (2) I'm not familiar at all with exe compression/encryption. But isn't it possible that the worm attached itself to the clean fafis exe first (and without the author's knowledge)--*before* the author compressed? The author could have tested the uncompressed exe for a while before finally packaging it up for distribution. (Note : It still would apparently be the first reported case of this worm attaching itself to files, but that's not what I'm asking about.) Thanks, Michael
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