F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Lovgate.AE

Summary

Lovgate.AE worm was found on July 2nd, 2004. The worm spreads in e-mails, local networks and peer-to-peer networks. Additionally the worm drops a backdoor to an infected system.

Recovering from Lovgate.AE infection can be a laborious task, as it deletes unread email from Outlook inbox, and renames all found .EXE files to .ZMX.

Lovgate.AE is similar to Lovgate.AC. For more information, see

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/lovgate_ac.shtml

Detection

Detection of Lovgate.AE was published in the following F-Secure Anti-Virus updates:

[FSAV_Database_Version]

Version=2004-07-02_01

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Write-up by: Mikko Hypponen, July 3rd, 2004

F-Secure Corporation