Author: Michael Diosi
Date: 02:56:52 06/03/05
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On June 03, 2005 at 05:42:41, Michael Yee wrote: Hello Michael, >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.) Port 7000 needs to be closed to our knowledge. >(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.) To our knowledge it must have beed done manualy. There is no way the virus/worm does this automaticly. >Thanks, >Michael Best, Michael
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