05-20-2003, 12:35 PM
Flayer Not Pound,May 20 2003, 12:03 PM Wrote:A new mass-mailing e-mail worm, which feigns a Microsoft.com origin, is spreading rapidly. Antivirus vendors say it can also spread via a local area network and can install "spyware" on a victim's PC.(Emphasis mine)
The Palyh, or Mankx, worm appears to come from support@microsoft.com, a forged address. It contains a file which, upon execution, self-propagates using e-mail addresses from files stored on the targeted system, but which can also spread to other Windows machines on a local area network (LAN).
That's why the worm is not going to catch a glimpse of my hard drive even if it comes from god@heaven.com. Random executables block my cognitive abilities rendering me unable to open them ;)