Re: W32.Swen mutating?
From: Alun Jones [MS MVP] (alun_at_texis.com)
Date: 10/30/03
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Date: Thu, 30 Oct 2003 19:49:56 GMT
In article <04af01c39e6b$0b584790$a301280a@phx.gbl>, "Mary" <anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote:
>All of my W32.Swen emails have referred to the October
>2003 patch. I got one today that referred to January 1997.
Probably sweN infected someone whose system clock is set wrong :-)
>My other Swen emails that say "unable to deliver message"
>are starting to completely degrade - subjects are missing
>and the grammer is getting whacky. Any chance they'll
>eventually disintegrate themselves away?
Unlikely. Most viral mutations seem to be deliberate events. Either
because someone's re-written the virus, or because the virus was originally
written to change its shape to try and avoid detection. The grammar started
off pretty whacky, from what I remember, so I don't know that you're seeing
anything terribly significant. It's always possible that you're seeing a
new strain, though. Does your AV program detect it the same?
Alun.
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