SecureData, an ERP.com company and the exclusive sub-Saharan distributors of Trend Micro (Nasdaq: TMIC, TSE: 4704), is warning computer users of a fast spreading worm known as VBS_VBSGW.Z (aliases: MAWANELLA, VBSGW.Z.)
This Visual Basic Script (VBS) worm copies itself to a "Mawanella.vbs" file in the Windows 9X/ME directory or to the WINNT/WINDOWS 2000 system32 directory. It propagates by sending copies of itself as attachment via e-mail to all entries in an infected system's contact list. After it sends e-mails, or if the infected system does not have an application installed, the worm displays messages.
Subject Line:
Mawanella
Attachment:
Mawanella.vbs
Message text:
Mawanella is one of the Sri Lanka's Muslim Village This brutal incident happened here 2 Muslim Mosques & 100 Shops are burnt I hat this incident, What about you? I can destroy your computer I didn't do that because I am a peace-loving citizen
This message is accompanied by a burning house.
Trend Micro detects the worm since pattern file 890.
Existing customers can also use the content filtering plug-in eManager to block the name file Mawanella, extension name vbs.
"Once again, this illustrates that computer users are still opening suspicious files, even after the media attention that was given to last week's VBS_HOMEPAGE outbreak," says Raimund Genes, VP of Sales of Marketing for Europe. "Attachment files from unknown sources should be deleted immediately."
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SecureDATA, an ERP.com company, is a Managed Security Service Provider. SecureDATA is the exclusive sub-Saharan Distributors of Trend Micro, providing enterprise-wide, centrally managed, server-based, virus protection, e-mail filtering and Internet filtering products and services. Concern about Internet Safety has created a vigorous and growing market for content security products and services. Today, e-mail attachments account for over 50% of virus infections, and web-based malicious mobile code (vandals) is widely thought to be the predominant content threat of the near future. SecureDATA, brings sub-Saharan Africa the tools that build anti-virus and content security protection into the Internet and Mail/Groupware infrastructure.
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