Email-Worm.VBS.Spam.Brief

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Spam.Brief is a worm virus spreading via the Internet as an attachment to infected emails. It is written in Visual Basic Script (VBS).

To send out messages the virus uses MS Outlook and sends messages to all addresses found in a victim machine's Outlook address book. The messages sent by the worm have the following subject:

here comes the subject

Message body text:

here comes the body

Attachment name:

virus.bat

Spreading
The virus spreads only when the file virus.bat appears in the root directory on drive C:. Thus the enclosed file will not work if the operating system tries to process it as a BAT-file.

Other versions
The virus is written in Visual Basic Script (VBS). To send out messages the virus uses MS Outlook to send infected messages to all addresses found in the Outlook address book. These messages sent by the trojan have the following subject:

Nice couple

Message body text:

They want to meet you. http://briefcase.yahoo.com/youngwifedawn

The message itself does not contain an attached copy of the trojan.