Inter Engineering

Inter Enginering and F-Secure Corporation inform that many copies of a new Windows e-mail worm called "Chet" have been received. This worm is themed around the September 11th terrorist attacks.

This worm was found on September 10th, 2002. As it contains serious bugs, the Chet worm will fail to function on most systems and can not be considered to be a major threat at this time. This advisory is published to prevent unnecessary hysteria on this worm.

The Chet worm tries to spread via an attachment file called 11september.exe. When this file is executed, the worm will attempt to send an e-mail to each address found from the Windows address book. The e-mail would always have "mail@world.com" as the sender and "All people!!" as the subject.

The e-mail tries to explain that the attached "11september.exe" file contains proof of a conspiracy between US government and Al-Qaeda. However, if user executes the file, nothing visible happens while the worm tries to send itself to every e-mail address listed in the computers address book. This worm has apparently been written in Russia.

"This seems to be a poor attempt from a wannabe virus writer to exploit the commemoration of September 11th", comments Mikko Hypponen, Manager of Anti-Virus Research at F-Secure. "However, as the worm seems to crash regularily, it won't go far".

Detailed description of the worm is available at: http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/chet.shtml

About Inter Engineering :

Inter Engineering is one of the few companies specialized in Data Security. Since 1992 the company is active in the protection against computer viruses and has since then extended its activities with strong cryptography, access control, copy protection, biometrics, data recovery and year 2000 solutions. The Company cooperates closely with leading providers globally and contributes actively to research and development. Also close relationships with scientific organizations are maintained. Thus Inter Engineering is able to provide consultancy and solutions for almost any Data Security issue.

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