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Solve : New Worm locks all documents and emails with a password? |
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Answer» Full Story.That's seriously the lamest worm I've heard of...It's not even a worm... a Worm is malware that uses NETWORK access to distribute itself to other nodes (computers). This just copies itself around. Sure, it may COPY itself to network drives, but that hardly constitutes the program being called "network enabled" since it's REALLY just copying itself to a share that it sees as a DRIVE. A Worm usually exploits a vulnerability in the TCP/IP stack or something crazy like that in order to get itself onto another machine, where it continues to propagate from there throughout each node. AV vendors these days are getting pretty lazy and interchange the terms more often them my fictitious Aunt. I find it rather funny that it locks STUFF from word, outlook, and powerpoint, and yet curiously omits Excel. I guess they looked at hte object model to try to figure out how to protect the worksheets with a password but found the whole thing too confusing and gave up. Also, it stands to reason that one can easily fix that "lockout" stuff by using OpenOffice, since it's practically a certainty that this "worm" is both written in Visual Basic 6 and entirely dependent on the COM interfaces provided by MS Office (Word.Application, Outlook.Application, and PowerPoint.Application (or whatever they are called). If you don't have office (or have a version whereby OLE automation is less.... automated... then you can pretty much render it inert. Quote 721709031350it's the worm authors social security number! (wouldn't that take the cake?) |
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