Sophos

VBS/VBSWG-V

Aliases
  • Cindy
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
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VBS/VBSWG-V is an encrypted worm that uses Outlook mIRC and Pirch to spread.

This worm arrives as an attachment named "Cindy12yr.vbs" in an email with the subject line: "Check out this preteen pic!!". The body of the email contains pornographic text.

The worm will attempt to overwrite VBS and VBE files on network drives.

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