W32.Maldal.K@mm

Risk Level 1: Very Low

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Discovered:: April 22, 2002
Updated:: February 13, 2007 11:59:32 AM
Type:: Worm

W32.Maldal.K@mm is a variant of W32.Maldal@mm. It is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic. The worm attempts to send itself to all contacts in the Microsoft Outlook address book and the MSN Messenger contact list. It also searches for email addresses in all .html files. It creates several registry keys and files on the system.

Antivirus Protection Dates

Initial Rapid Release version April 22, 2002
Latest Rapid Release version September 28, 2010 revision 054
Initial Daily Certified version April 22, 2002
Latest Daily Certified version September 28, 2010 revision 036
Initial Weekly Certified release date April 23, 2002

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Threat Assessment

Wild

Wild Level: Low
Number of Infections: 0 - 49
Number of Sites: 0 - 2
Geographical Distribution: Low
Threat Containment: Easy
Removal: Easy

Damage

Damage Level: Low

Distribution

Distribution Level: Low

Writeup By: Yana Liu

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