Released on: 24, November 2005
, Author: Doctor Web, Ltd.
, Audience: Software related
Let us image you received a message. This time it does not askyou to have a look at spicy pictures  you are already wise and never open suchattachments. The message reads.
From: Post@fbi.gov Dear Sir/Madam,we have logged your IP-address on more than 30 illegal Websites.Important:Please answer our questions!The list of questions are attached.Yours faithfully,Steven Allison*** Federal Bureau of Investigation -FBI-*** 935 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Room 3220*** Washington, DC 20535*** phone: (202) 324-3000
Yes, it really looks like a message from FBI. Or CIA  variants are possible. ThesendersÂ' address  undoubtedly points to these governmental organizations BKA@bka.bund.de  German policeDepartment@cia.gov - CIAPost@fbi.gov - FBI
What is your first reaction? Right - fear, and a keen desire to open the attachmentto have a look what serious people from a more than serious organizations areinterested in. And that is the trap! The social engineering trick hits the nail on the head! As itwas planned by the author of the new Sober worm (classified by the Dr.Web Anti-virusas Win32.HLLM.Generic.355). Being like a pea in the pod with most other variants,this time it is distributed under the excellent cover of FBI or CIA.
Thanks to the special implementation of the Dr.Web virus base, in which just asingle entry allows to detect tens, or hundreds, or even thousands similar viruses,registered users of our program were completely protected against this new wormBEFORE it was even written and BEFORE the epidemic outburst. This is also proved bythe last investigation of a well-known av-tester from Magdeburg, Germany - AndreasMarx. In his last test of the response speed of av-vendors to the outbreak of thenew Internet worm, Dr.Web was among a few antivirus programs which could PROACTIVELY- i.e. without release of a new virus definition to the base  detect the newthreat.
At present, this variety of the malicious code prevails in messages stopped by theDr.Web anti-virus filters at mail servers of our users. Its share in the infectedtraffic exceeds 33 per cent. The top virus ten looks as follows
Win32.HLLM.Generic.355 33.63% Win32.HLLM.Beagle.9219 11.62% Win32.HLLM.MyDoom.based 10.32% Win32.HLLM.Netsky.35328 9.35% Win32.HLLM.MyDoom 7.59% Win32.HLLM.Beagle 7.39% Win32.HLLM.Netsky.based 5.21% Win32.HLLM.Netsky 2.65% Win32.HLLM.MyDoom.33808 1.64% Win32.HLLM.MyDoom.44 1.53%
Source: Express-Press-Release.com
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