New Worm wiggling around the net....

[SlyCin56]

Since the 18th of Feb there is a new virus in town. If you get a notice from a virus scanner in your email saying that you sent them a virus called Netsky.B - Well - chances are if you get that message you're not infected at all. read on.


The Netsky.B worm, a mass-mailing email worm that also spreads via P2P and network shares, was discovered early on the 18th of February, 2004. Netsky.B is also known as Win32/Netsky.B, W32.Netsky-B, Worm.SomeFool and WORM_Netsky.B.

Netsky.B spoofs the From address on the email it sends. Doing so can result in a large number of erroneous alert messages from various antivirus vendors. These alerts not only contribute to the overall worm traffic, but sometimes can contain actual copies of the infected email and attachment. Users who receive these alerts are at risk of infection should they open the attachment to determine what email was allegedly blocked. The act of spoofing the From address can also cause perfectly innocent people to be accused of sending the worm. Ironically, the one person least likely to be infected is the person whose name appears in the From field.

[Ace Fun]

False envelopes for viruses have been around for quite a while now. I get so many bounced incorrectly by AOL that I have had to block all traffic from any AOL mailbox. One day they will employ someone that knows about email and stop helping to propagate viruses.

[SlyCin56]

I've gotten a couple of notices that I'm sending these out, but I can assure you I don't have the virus on my PC, nor have I emailed any of these out.

[kidd75219]

I got one from you, Cindy. Some BS subject line with an attachment. I also got one from casino cash journey. I didn't open either one.

[SlyCin56]

I'm getting them even from casinos!!

[pixmaster]

I guess the worm reads your address book and makes the e-mail look like it was sent from someone you know