Summary
Mimail is a family of simple mass-mailing worms which send various messages with infected EXE or ZIP attachments.
Some of the variants contain payloads such as stealing credit card information or Distributed Denial-of-Service attack against certain website.
Disinfection & Removal
Allow F-Secure Anti-Virus to disinfect the relevant files.
For more general information on disinfection, please see Removal Instructions.
Technical Details
Detailed descriptions of Mimail variants are available in separate documents:
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_c.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_d.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_e.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_f.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_g.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_h.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_i.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_j.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_l.shtml
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mimail_m.shtml
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