Originally from : "Samuel Bernas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Originally dated: Tue, 23 Nov 1999 11:39:20 +0700
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THIS VIRUS COULD STEAL CHRISTMAS
A new Melissa-like virus is spreading quickly. Network Associates announced
ten Fortune 500 companies have been hit with the W97/Priscilla virus which
takes advantage of security holes in Microsoft Outlook and Outlook Express.
If opened, the virus emails itself to the first fifty people in your address
book. The virus arrives in the form of an email with the subject line
"Message from [Office 97 user name]." The message body of the email says
"This document is very Important and you've GOT to read this!!!" Opening the
attached document will infect your computer. The virus itself won't go off
until Christmas day, at which point it will run a destructive payload
reformatting your hard drive. A fix is available at the Network Associates
Web site at www.networkassociates.com.
Humbug! Xmas virus hits 10 companies
W97M/Prilissa -- a bug set to go off on Christmas Day -- strikes Fortune 500
firms on three continents.
By Jim Kerstetter, PC Week
November 19, 1999 3:18 PM PT
It's called the W97M/Prilissa virus. But a better name for it would be the
Grinch virus.
Anti-virus researchers at Network Associates Inc. (Nasdaq: NETA) said Friday
that 10 Fortune 500 companies on three continents have been hit with a new
virus called W97/Prilissa. Prilissa is a nasty variant on two better known
attacks -- the Melissa worm and the PRI virus. The virus depends on the
Windows 95 and 98 operating systems and the Word 97 word processing
application.
If opened, it will e-mail itself to the first 50 names on a computer's
Outlook or Outlook Express e-mail client.
"This is probably the fastest infection rate we've seen since Melissa," said
Sal Viveros, anti-virus product manager at Network Associates, in Santa
Clara, Calif. The virus uses macro commands similar to those of Melissa to
replicate itself.
But the virus itself won't go off until Christmas day. That means it won't
have much of an impact on companies, which aren't likely to be open on that
day, even if it should go undetected. But there is a big threat to home PC
users, particularly unsuspecting children logging onto the computer to play
with their new games on Christmas.
The Dr. Suess analogies are endless.
The virus itself looks for a registry key to verify if the local system has
been infected. If it hasn't, the virus creates a Microsoft Outlook e-mail
message with the subject line "Message From (Office 97 user name)" and a
message body that says "This document is very Important and you've GOT to
read this!!!"
The first 50 listings from all address books are selected, along with an
attachment -- the infected document, whatever it is.
If the date is December 25, the virus runs a destructive payload to
overwrite the existing C:/AUTOEXEC.BAT file with instructions to format the
C drive.
The virus will not run on Windows NT. Another message is displayed on Word
97, adding:
"You Dare Rise Against Me ... The Human Era is Over, The CyberNET Era Has
Come!!!"
Most anti-virus vendors are expected to have a definition update and fix
prepared within the next few hours.
It's unclear who will carve the roast beast.
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