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Carnival

Classification

Category:

Malware

Aliases:

  • Carnival
  • Carnival.A@mm
  • VBS/Carnival.A@mm

Summary

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

Removal

Technical 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.

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