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Gelcan.A and Vote.K and a hoax called Evocash.
« on: Sep 19th, 2003, 10:05pm » |
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They're obviously hoping folk don't bother checking floppy disks these days... plus another hoax.
Gelcan.A spreads by copying itself in the floppy disk drive. Once it is run, Gelcan.A goes memory resident and tries to access the floppy disk drive from time to time, in order to copy itself there.
Vote.K is a worm that infects Windows 9.x (including ME) and Windows NT/2000/XP computers. It sends a copy of itself to all the contacts in the Outlook Address Book out via e-mail or the IRC channel. In addition, Vote.K overwrites all the files with the following extensions: exe, com and scr, bmp, jpg, rar, zip, wav, and txt.
Evocash is not a virus; it is a hoax or an e-mail message designed to deceive recipients into thinking that the message received contains a destructive worm, sent by Evocash. In fact, this company is not involved in any way, and the message does not contain any worms.
The Evocash hoax simply aims to cause alarm among users. In order to avoid problems, delete this message and do not forward it to anyone.
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