[Esd-l] Re: [Esa-l] Uh-oh.

[John D. Hardin]

On Fri, 7 Sep 2001, Brett Glass wrote:

> A new version of Magistr is making the rounds. See
> 
> http://www.viruslist.com/eng/default.asp?tnews=2&nview=1&id=1198&page=0
> 
> Don't know if John's sanitizer can really defend against
> it, though, as Magistr doesn't use fixed file names and
> the new version is supposedly highly polymorphic.

It has to use an executable extension, so at least the filename will
be mangled. If it picks something besides .EXE it'll probably be
poisoned as well.

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