W32.Vote.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic. When executed, it will

email itself out to all email addresses in the Microsoft Outlook address book. The worm will insert

two .vbs files on the system, and it will also attempt to delete files from several antivirus products.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.vote.a@mm.html

-=-=- In case you missed last weeks worm.

Major new worm poses serious threat worldwide

By Sam Costello

September 18, 2001 10:40 am PT

A NEW WORM that can infect all 32-bit Windows computers

and propagates using multiple methods has spread across the

world Tuesday morning, according to Roger Thompson,

technical director of malicious code at TruSecure.

The worm, called Nimda (admin spelled backwards), can

spread via e-mail attachments, HTTP, or across shared hard

disks inside networks, Thompson said. The worm can infect

all 32-bit Windows systems -- Windows 98, 2000, Millennium

Edition, XP, NT -- because it scans systems for between 10

and 100 different vulnerabilities and exploits them when found,

he said.

"It looks like they've made a Swiss Army Knife," Thompson

said, referring to the number of different tools the worm can

use to attack systems.

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http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/01/09/18/010918hnworm.xml?0918alert