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How virus harvest e-mail addresses.


The worm scans files with certain extensions on all hard disks to harvest e-mail addresses. Files with the following extensions are scanned:  ini log mdb tbb abd adb pl rtf doc xls txt wab eml php asp shtml dbx wab tbb abd adb pl

The worm saves all found e-mail addresses to MSLOGS32.DLL file located in Windows System folder. This is an ASCII file, not a binary file.

Updated On: 04.05.08

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