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W32.XPExp.Worm Hoax
SUMMARY
Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is harmless and is intended only to cause unwarranted concern.Please ignore any messages regarding this hoax and do not pass on messages. Passing on messages about the hoax only serves to further propagate it.
Symantec Security Response encourages you to ignore any messages regarding this hoax. It is intended only to cause unwarranted concern. This hoax arrives as a message box on the computer screen. The message box is not a result of executing a local file, but the result of a user remotely instructing the computer to display the message box via Microsoft Networking. Users should take steps to lock down their system to prevent this type of hoax message box from appearing.
Behavior
Symptoms
Transmission
TECHNICAL DETAILS
This hoax arrives as a pop-up message box on the system. The message box will state it comes from Symantec, but this is a hoax. The message box will contain an IP address specifying the computer that sent the message and the time.
The message box may state:
- Symantec (Deutschland) GmbH - Kaiserswerther Str. 115 - 40880 Ratingen
Telefon: 02 102/74 53-0 - Telefax: 02 102/74 53 922
Sehr geehrter Computernutzer,
Symantec Online VirusScan hat den Befall Ihres Rechners mit dem Virus W32.XPExp.Worm
festgesllt. W32.XPExp.Worm is ein Wurm, der Systeme angreft, auf denen Windows 2000/XP
verwendet wird. Hierdurch werden schleichend Dokumente verandert bzw, unbrauchbar.
Aufgrund der grossen Anzahl an versendeten Datenpaketen verursacht der Wurm ausserdem einen
Denial-of-Service-Angriff, fur den Sie unter Umstanden haftbar gemacht werden konnen.
Da bereits gross Teile des Internets betroffen sind und wir uns der Sicherheit der Computernutzer
verpflichtet fuhlen, erhalten Sie kostenlos eine Vollversion von Norton AntiVirus 2003, wenn Sie
uns unter o.g. Kontakt ansprechen.
Mit freundlichen Grussen
Ihr Symantec AntiVirus Team
and will appear like:
Such message are able to be displayed remotely via Microsoft Networking.
Please ignore any messages regarding this hoax and do not pass on messages. Passing on messages about the hoax only serves to further propagate it.
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