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Carnival
| VARIANT: | Carnival.A@mm |
| ALIAS: | VBS/Carnival.A@mm |
Summary
Carnival is a mass-mailer (worm) written in Visual Basic Script.
Additional Details
Carnival.A arrives in a message that looks as follow:
Subject: Next Week: Brazilian Carnival
Body: That's Great...
Attachment: Brazilian_Carnival.JPG.vbs
The worm activates when a user click on the attached file. It spreads to all recipients written in Outlook address book.
On the top of its code this virus contains the following text:
'Brazilian_Carnival
followed by many commended lines.
[Analysis: Katrin Tocheva, F-Secure; February 2001]