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Top 10 malware reported to Sophos in February 2001
This section helps you to understand how it behaves
VBS/SST-A is an email-aware Visual Basic Script worm.
The worm arrives in an email with the following characteristics: Subject line: Here you have, ;O)
The virus lures users into activating it by pretending to be a jpeg graphic of Russian tennis player Anna Kournikova.
The first time the attached file is executed it will write a copy of itself to the user's Windows directory. The worm will then attempt to send a copy of itself to every entry in the user's Outlook address book.
The worm makes changes to the Registry, creating an entry called HKCU\software\OnTheFly.
On the 26th of January the worm attempts to connect to a website in the Netherlands, www.dynabyte.nl
The author of the Kournikova worm, OnTheFly, later confessed and handed himself over to the Dutch police. Worryingly, the mayor of OnTheFly's home town of Sneek, has suggested the virus writer should be offered a job in the council's IT department on the basis of his exploits.
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