"W32.Novarg.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm. The worm will arrive as an attachment with a file extension of .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip.
When the machine gets infected, the worm will set up a backdoor into the system by opening TCP ports 3127 thru 3198. This will potentially allow a hacker to connect to the machine and utilize it as a proxy to gain access to it's network resources. In addition, the backdoor has the ability to download and execute arbitrary files.
The worm will perform a DoS starting on February 1, 2004. On February 12, 2004 the worm has a trigger date to stop spreading."
Excerpted from - http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html
Anybody kena this? Think I just did, too lazy to install antivirus on my office PC... dang. Now trying to undo the damage I just 'did'.
When the machine gets infected, the worm will set up a backdoor into the system by opening TCP ports 3127 thru 3198. This will potentially allow a hacker to connect to the machine and utilize it as a proxy to gain access to it's network resources. In addition, the backdoor has the ability to download and execute arbitrary files.
The worm will perform a DoS starting on February 1, 2004. On February 12, 2004 the worm has a trigger date to stop spreading."
Excerpted from - http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html
Anybody kena this? Think I just did, too lazy to install antivirus on my office PC... dang. Now trying to undo the damage I just 'did'.
