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Wednesday, August 01, 2001
http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/vbs.potok@mm.html NT/2000 Virus Making Rounds - VBS.Potok@mm Discovered on: July 30, 2001 The VBS.Potok@mm worm is a simple Visual Basic script that exploits a little-known feature of Windows NT/2000 to spread. It sends itself to the first 50 recipients in the Microsoft Outlook Address Book. It attempts to add a new user to the infected computer and grant the user Administrator rights. The sample of this worm that SARC received has bugs that prevent it from operating correctly....
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