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‘WELCOME TO NEXT GENERATION VIRRI TECHNOLOGY’

At SophosLabs the question often arises as to why so many people would dedicate so much of their time authoring malware. In a sample we recently received, we get a glimpse into the mindset of a budding “Virri” creator via an HTML page left on the hard drive.

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These so-called “new kind of tricks” are old hat technology and have posed no problem for modern anti-virus engines. His masterpiece to show his “power of programming” is a bloated and poorly constructed program, even for a VB application. Nope, I think only the small boys will do that.

To commemorate the efforts of the author, we detect this sample as W32/VBLame-B.


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