[Esa-l]new virus that (supposedly) formats c

[John D. Hardin]

On Thu, 7 Jun 2001, Chris Smith wrote:

> More info on the missworld virus that supposedly formats your C
> drive, (in case some haven't heard - thought it was worth the
> extra warning for the format reason):
> 
> http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32missworld.html
> 
> Another reason to ban *.exe files....

Individual filenames to poison:

	misworld.exe
	MissWorld.exe
	MWld.exe
	MWrld.exe

The poisoned-executables list is not case sensitive.

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