According to a security report published by Emergic CleanMail, junk mail
in corporate India is at an all-time high and amounted to 71.65 percent of the
total mail in the week ending April, 08, 2005. 64.67 percent of the overall
mail originated from areas such as open relay servers, open proxies, and zombie
machines that were exploited worldwide.
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1
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W32/Netsky.P@mm |
33.73 percent
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This is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine
to send itself to the e-mail addresses it finds when scanning hard drives
and mapped drives. It also tries to spread through various file-sharing
programmes by copying itself into various shared folders. |
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2
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W32.MyDoom.BG@mm |
19.97 percent
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This mass mailing worm uses its own SMTP engine to replicate
itself to the e-mail addresses that it collects from the PC it has infected.
The worm then downloads PWSteal.Trojan on the infected system. |
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3
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HTML.Phishing.Bank-1 |
9.96 percent
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This is a trojan that steals personal information and spreads
through e-mail. |
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4
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W32.FunLove.4099 |
7.37 percent
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W32.FunLove.4099 replicates under Windows 95/98/Me and Windows
NT. It infects programmes that have .exe, .scr, and .ocx extensions. |
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5
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W32/Netsky.Q@mm |
4.41 percent
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This is a mass-mailing worm that consists of two components:
a dropper and a mass-mailing component. It uses its own SMTP engine to send
itself to the e-mail addresses it finds when scanning the disk drives. |