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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Carnival





NAME:Carnival

Carnival is a mass-mailer (worm) written in Visual Basic Script.

VARIANT:Carnival.A@mm
ALIAS:VBS/Carnival.A@mm

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]