W32/Cailont-B

Category: Viruses and Spyware Protection available since:02 Sep 2003 00:00:00 (GMT)
Type: Win32 worm Last Updated:02 Sep 2003 00:00:00 (GMT)
Prevalence: No Reports

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W32/Cailont-B is an email aware worm.

The subject line, message text and attachment filename of the email are produced by concatenating several randomly chosen phrases.

The email contains an HTML component which itself contains a Visual Basic Script which drops and runs W32/Cailont-B.

When run W32/Cailont-B copies itself to various folders on the system which may include:

C:\Program Files\Microsoft Office\Office\startup
C:\Windows\System\viewers
C:\Windows\All Users\Start Menu\Programs\Startip
C:\Windows\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp
C:\Windows\System

W32/Cailont-B will also drop the Visual Basic Script version of itself in one or more files with a DAT extension. These files are detected as VBS/Cailont-A.

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