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NakedWife
Posing as a Flash movie entitled "NakedWife.exe" this Visual Basic worm deletes BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, and .INI files from the WINDOWS and WINDOWS\SYSTEM directories and mass-mails itself to recipients in the Windows Address book.
MyBabyPic
MyBabyPic, aka Myba, is disguised as an animated baby with adult overtones. The animation and delayed (but malicious) payload, may fool users into believing it's legitimate and therefore helping the spread by sending it on to others.
VBS/SST
A mass mailing email worm currently spreading at a high rate. VBS/SST masquerades as pictures of the tennis star, Anna Kournikova.
LoveLetter.CD
Arriving with the subject: “C’è una cartolina per te!" and the message: “Ciao, un tuo amico ti ha spedito una cartolina virtuale... mooolto particolare!” The attachment is named CARTOLINA.VBS.
Ramen virus
The Ramen virus exploits security vulnerabilities in default installations of Red Hat Linux 6.2 and 7.0
Tqll
Windows 32-bit system infector with backdoor component.
Melissa.W
Possibly arriving in the attachment, Anniv.doc, Melissa.W can only be detected by antivirus software supporting Macintosh Office 2001.
LoveLetter.AS
Sends randomly named files with .GIF.VBS, .JPG.VBS, and .BMP.VBS extensions
FunLove
Infects PE EXE (Windows portable executables) on local and network drives.
CIH virus
The CIH virus makes a reappearance overwriting data on the local hard drive and overwriting the Flash BIOS making the system unbootable.
VBS/Stages
An older virus, this one appears to be making a comeback. Antivirus vendors report a marked increase in infection.
Shockwave / Pro-Linux / Creative
This combination threat has been given different names by the various antivirus vendors. For example, Trend Micro refers to it as Shockwave and McAfee refers to it as Pro-Linux. The Trojan/worm spreads via email as an attched file named CREATIVE.exe. The body of the email reads: “Check out this new flash movie that I downloaded just now ... It’s Great. Bye”
Music
Music is a VBScript worm received as an email attachment, named MUSIC.EXE. The subject line of the message reads: "Testing to send file" and the body of the email reads: "Hi, just testing email using Merry Christmas music file, not bad music."
I-Worm.MTX
This worm prevents accessing antivirus vendor sites - making updates for protection nearly impossible. Command AntiVirus is not a blocked site and can detect/disinfect this threat.
Romeo & Juliet
Officially dubbed BleBla, this new worm takes advantage of a security vulnerability that allows email attachments to be executed automatically - even from the preview pane.
Hybris
Arriving via too many attachment names to mention here, and self-updating via the alt.comp.virus newsgroups, Hybris is comprehensively described by F-Secure.
W32/Navidad
Navidad.exe is received as an email attachment. It will send itself out to any senders of unread email in your inbox.
Sonic.B
Yet another Internet worm that spreads via email, Sonic does not appear to have a malicious payload.
QAZ Worm
This worm searches all local and network drives, replacing Notepad.exe with Note.com. Users are unaware that each time they use Notepad, they are actually helping the worm carry out its deeds.
RC5.b Worm
This is a portable executable worm that infects Windows 95/98 systems with open shares.
VBS/777
Panda Software's analysis suggests this VBScript worm uses quite a bit of the original LoveLetter code to deliver its overwriting payload.
W97M/Shore.A
A Word 97 macro virus, W97M/Shore.A infects templates and doc files, while suppressing the normal macro warning protection.
Macro.Excel97/Word97.Cybernet
An Office97/2000 macro virus, it affects both Word and Excel as well as spreading via Outlook 98 and 2000. AVP provides details on this virus, which delivers a malicious payload on August 17 and on December 25.
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