Sophos

W32/Naked

Aliases
  • W32/Naked@mm
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
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Action

More Information

This worm spreads by emailing itself to addresses listed in the user's Microsoft Outlook address book.

Subject: Fw: Naked Wife
Message:

> My wife never look like that! ;-)

Best Regards,
<username>

Attachment: Nakedwife.exe.

When the attachment is run it imitates a video player and displays an image to fool the user into believing that a video is loading.

Imitation Flash video player

The worm will also delete a number of files from the Windows directory and its subdirectories.

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