Keeping the Homepage worm on the hook

By Robert Vamosi
10 May 2001 02:30 PM
Tags: worm, homepage, anti-virus, scan
Another "just-add-water" worm created with a hacker kit is spreading fast. Find out how to prevent it.

Homepage (Vbs.vbswg2.d@mm) is a fast spreading email worm that infects Outlook users. Like the creator of Anna, the creator of Homepage also used a worm generator kit commonly available on the Internet. Homepage's real danger is to overload email servers with excess traffic.

How it works
Homepage arrives as an email with the following:

Subject: Homepage

Body: Hi!You've got to see this page! It's really cool ;O)

Attachment: Homepage.HTML.vbs

If the user opens the Homepage attachment, it sends a copy of itself to everyone in your address book. Homepage then randomly chooses an adult Web page to display on the system's default Internet browser. Homepage will also search a user's Inbox and Deleted Items folder in Outlook and remove any email with the subject line "Homepage."

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