A New Internet Worm Terrorizes German Users

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Kaspersky Lab General news, Thursday, October 25, 2001
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Kaspersky Labs, an international an international data-security
software developer announces the detection of a new Internet-worm
"Anset" spreading via e-mail and disguising itself as a new version of
a German anti-trojan scanner "ANTS". Up to date Kaspersky Labs
registered many reports of the worm to be "in-the-wild" in Germany.

Defense procedures thwarting "Anset" have already been added to the
Kaspersky Anti-Virus database update. A more detailed description of
the worm is available in the Kaspersky Virus Encyclopedia.
http://www.viruslist.com/eng/viruslist.asp?id=4285&key=00001000130000100107



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