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Virus Name Status Minimum DAT Special Notes
W32/Myparty@MM At 1/28/002 4184 Subject: new photos from my party
W32/Nimda@MM At Duke 1/25/002 4162 Outlook *.eml files; can traverse Netware directories
W32/Badtrans@MM At Duke 1/25/002 4172 Backdoor keystroke recorder; email subject "Re:"
VBS/IEstart.gen At Duke 12/20/001 4131 Picked up from Web page
W32/SirCam@MM At Duke 12/17/001 4148 Mass mailer; "Hi, How Are You: This is the file with the information you ask for
W32/gokar@MM Not seen yet 4176 Lot's of suspicious subject lines; Body: "Happy Birthday," or "You should like this" or "Hey, they say love is blind"
W32/Goner@MM At Duke 12/04/001 4174 Screen saver goner.scr; Subject: "Hi"
W32/FunLove.4099 At Duke 10/05/001 4052 Arriving on very large (> 3M) email attachment
W32/Magistr.b At Duke 9/21/001 4158 Worm
W32/Pretty.Worm At Duke 5/23/001 4029 Trojan, Kyle from Southpark
W97/Thus.gen At Duke 5/16/001 4041 Word macro virus
W32/Navidad@M At Duke 5/13/001 4105 navidad.exe trojan, blue eye
VBS/SST@MM At Duke 5/11/001 4092 Anna Kournikova picture worm; also Homepage virus
W32/Magistr@MM At Duke 5/8/001 4128 Came to Duke via Spanish emails; can alter CMOS settings
W32/BleBla.b@MM At Duke 4/17/001 4109 Romeo and Juliet attachments
W97M/Hope.a At Duke 4/11/001 4036 Word 97, infects 'ThisDocument', normal.dot
W95/MTX.gen@M At Duke 3/03/001 4093 Portable Executable, "I am sorry"
W97/Ethan.gen At Duke 2/26/001 4010 Word Macro Virus
W32/Hybris.gen@M At Duke 2/9/001 4101 Snowhite and the Seven Dwarfs
W97M/VMPCK1.by At Duke 2/9/001 4027 Word 97 Macro Virus
W32/MTX@MM At Duke 2/6/001 4093 Combinatorial attack
JS/Kak@M At Duke 2/6/001 4051 a.k.a. JS/kak.worm, Email script attachment
VBS/Loveletter.a At Duke 2/6/001 4077 Love Bug; Loveletter.av; Very Funny.vbs; joke.doc
W32/FunLove.4099 At Duke 2/6/001 4052 Spreads across NetBIOS shares
W32/Msinit At Duke 2/6/001 4099 a.k.a. Trojan.Win32.Bymer
Unsafe Script At duke 1/31/001 4054 Use Heuristic Scan; uses ActiveX; IE5 patchable
W32/QAZ.worm
At Duke 1/29/001 4091 Trojan, Notepad.exe, spreads via network shares
W32/ska.exe At Duke 1/29/001 4012 A.K.A. Happy 99
W32/Prolin At Duke 11/30/00 4109 creative.exe attachment
W97M/Panther At Duke 11/29/00 4050 Found on a Mac
W32/Sonic.worm In Europe 4102 gdi32.exe trojan
W97M/Generic.dam At Duke 11/15/00 4094 Actually a detection to detect remnants of cleaned viruses
W97/Assilem.c At Duke 11/10/00 4049 Formerly Melissa
W97M/Groov.gen At Duke 11/10/00 4002 Word macro virus
W97M/Smac.gen At Duke 11/03/00 4062 Word macro virus
W97M/Marker.gen At Duke 10/30/00 4023 Word macro virus


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