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Recent Outbreaks
Viruses recently discovered in-the-wild.

W32/Navidad
Navidad.exe is received as an email attachment. It will send itself out to any senders of unread email in your inbox.

I-Worm.MTX
A worm, Trojan, and virus combo that prevents users from connecting to their antivirus vendor sites.

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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