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Top ten viruses reported to Sophos in January 2001

This is the latest in a series of monthly charts counting down the ten most frequently occurring viruses as compiled by Sophos, a world leader in corporate anti-virus protection.

For January 2001, the chart is as follows, with the most frequently occurring virus at number one:

This section helps you to understand how it behaves

W32/Navidad-B is a variant of the W32/Navidad email-aware worm. The worm arrives in an email message with an attachment called EMANUEL.EXE.

If the attached program is launched, it displays a dialog box containing the text ";)".

It then attempts to read new email messages and to send itself to the senders' addresses.

The worm copies itself into the Windows system directory with the filename WINTASK.EXE and changes the registry so that it runs on Windows startup and before any file is run.

The worm also installs itself into the system tray.

If the user clicks on the icon, it displays a dialog box with the text "Nunca presionar este boton".

If the user clicks the button, the worm displays a dialog box with the title "Emmanuel....." and the text "Emmanuel-God is with us!May god bless u.And Ash, Lk and LJ!!".

If the user does not press the button but instead attempt to close the message the worm displays a message with the title "Emmanuel....." and the text "May GOd bless u;D";

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