Subject: [NEXTEL-1] Lovegate Worm Spreads Across Internet

From: Marcel <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 25 Feb 2003 14:58:59 -0500

Lovegate Worm Spreads Across Internet

The Lovegate.C worm, which infects computers with a backdoor to allow remote
users to have access to PCs, is spreading across the Internet. It has been
detected in systems in Taiwan, Australia, France and Japan, but its progress
has slowed as companies updated anti-virus software in the U.S. The virus
spreads through e-mail and shared files. The Lovegate worm does not affect Mac
and Linux systems.
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Quick fixes stymie LoveGate worm

February 25, 2003, 8:45 AM PT
URL: http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-985901.html

An Internet e-mail worm that leaves a back door on infected systems for possible future
attacks spread quickly through Asia and Europe on Monday but slowed down as U.S.
companies updated their anti-virus software, a computer security researcher said.

The Lovegate.C worm, which first appeared in Asia, sends
messages to two different e-mail addresses in Beijing once it
infects a computer, said Joe Hartmann, director of North American
anti-virus research for Tokyo-based Trend Micro Inc. (TMIC.O)

"The virus author could then connect to the infected system and do anything he wants to,
(like) steal
confidential information, delete files or run other applications on the computer,"
Hartmann said.

Once a computer user clicks on the attachment, the worm--a self-propagating computer
virus--spreads by sending itself to recipients listed in an infected computer's address
book, he said.

If the computer is running Microsoft's Outlook or Outlook Express e-mail programs the worm

automatically replies to new incoming e-mails using the same subject line as the original
message.

It also spreads via shared network folders, Trend Micro said.

Anti-virus vendors updated their software to protect people against the new worm, which
had
significantly slowed its spread. There had been about 10,000 infections worldwide,
Hartmann said.

http://zdnet.com.com/2100-1105-985901.html

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