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Tuesday, October 01, 2002
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/tanatos.shtml F-Secure Virus Descriptions - NAME: Bugbear Radar Alert LEVEL 2 ALIAS: Tanatos, W32/Bugbear, Tanat, W32/Tanat, I-Worm.Tanatos SIZE: 50688 Tanatos is a mass-mailing worm with keylogging and backdoor capabilties. It appeared in the wild on 30th of September 2002. The worm's file is a PE EXE (portable executable), 50688 bytes long and it is compressed with UPX file compressor. When run, the worm copies itself to Windows System directory with a random name (JFMV.EXE for example) and adds a startup key for this file to the Registry:...
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