W32.Miniman@mm

W32.Miniman@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to all the contacts in the Microsoft Outlook address book.

The worm may send the following two email messages:

Email 1

Subject: Microsoft Corporation Support
Body: Microsoft Corporation has issued a security alert for your computer. The patch is avaliable in this attached download. This file will patch a Exploit found in Microsoft Windows Products. See Attached info for Information.
Attachments: Attach.exe, Virus.vbs

Email 2

Subject: The Bin Laden game
Body: Hi! This is an awesome Bin Laden game. Shoot him good.
Attachment: Virus.vbs

W32.Miniman@mm is written in the Microsoft Visual Basic (VB) language.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version August 21, 2003
• Latest Rapid Release version August 20, 2008 revision 017
• Initial Daily Certified version August 21, 2003
• Latest Daily Certified version January 20, 2009 revision 048
• Initial Weekly Certified release date August 27, 2003

Click here for a more detailed description of Rapid Release and Daily Certified virus definitions.

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: High