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F-Secure Virus Descriptions : LoveLetter.T





NAME:LoveLetter.T

Information about the original VBS/LoveLetter.A is available at: http://www.F-Secure.com/v-descs/love.shtml

This variant spreads in e-mails with the following content:

    Subject:    Recent Virus Attacks-Fix
    Body:       Attached is a copy of a script that will reverse the
                effects of the LOVE-LETTER-TO-YOU.TXT.vbs as well as
                the FW:JOKE, Mother's Day and Lithuanian Siblings.
    Attachment: BAND-AID.DOC.vbs

It replaces files with extensions ".bat", ".gif", ".tif", ".tiff", ".wav", ".mp2", ".mp3", ".lnk", ".bak", ".doc", ".xls", ".rtf", ".txt", ".htm", ".html", ".xml", ".mny", ".zip", ".bmp", ".cab" and ",inf" with a file that has the original file name, the original extension and an additional extension ".vbs".

In addition, VBS/LoveLetter.T places an HTML file to the Windows System directory, "BAND-AID.HTM", that is used to spread the worm via IRC.

[Analysis: Katrin Tocheva, Mikko Hypponen, Alexey Podrezov and Sami Rautiainen, F-Secure]