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Sunday, January 13, 2002
http://www.zdnet.com/zdnn/stories/news/0,4586,2838401,00.html?chkpt=zdnnp1tp02 Gigger 'update' worm attacks hard drive By Robert Vamosi, ZDNet Reviews This JavaScript worm poses as a Microsoft Outlook upgrade. Don't be taken in by Internet worm Gigger, which poses as a Microsoft update. Gigger (js.gigger.a@mm) attempts to spread itself to everyone in your Outlook Address Book, propagate via mIRC, and copy itself to computers connected on a local network. Gigger then tries to delete all the files on your hard drive the next time the computer reboots. Written in JavaScript, this 17K worm uses the Windows Scripting Host to execute on infected systems....
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