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Naked
According to McAfee AVERT, Naked exhibits the following characteristics:
Type: Internet worm
Subject: FW: Naked Wife
If the attachment is opened, an imitation Flash Window displays with the colorful title "JibJab". Clicking on Help | About reveals a personal message from the virus author, "You’re are now F****D! (C) 2001 by BGK (Bill Gates Killer)." Meanwhile, the worm is busily deleting .BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, and .INI files from the Windows and Windows\System directories. Naked also mass-mails itself to recipients listed in the infected user's Windows address book.
Aliases: W32/Naked, Naked Wife, Troj_Naked, JibJab
Systems Affected: Windows 32-bit systems with Visual Basic 6 runtime files installed
Payload: Deletes files
ITW: Yes
Origin:
Description:Naked is a Visual Basic worm spread by sending infected messages from affected computers running Microsoft® Outlook. The worm is usually received as follows:
Message text: My wife never look like that! ;-)
Best Regards,
(sender's name)
Attachment name: nakedwife.exe
