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Thursday, January 09, 2003
Avril Worm May Make Things Complicated - Ryan Naraine, InternetNews
Anti-virus firm Sophos Wednesday warned of a new mass-mailing worm that pays tribute to Canadian pop singer Avril Lavigne. An alert from Lynnfield, Mass.-based Sophos said the Avril/Livra (W32/Avril-A) worm was found in the wild piggybacking on known iFrame vulnerabilities in Microsoft Outlook. Once executed, the worm opens the user's IE browser on the official Avril Lavigne Web site on the 7th, 11th and 24th of the month, Sophos said. The worm uses the iFrames bug in Outlook to forward itself to all e-mail addresses in Outlook, regardless of whether the e-mail attachment is opened or not.
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