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13. Help & HowTo: Goner - ZDNet UK Insight
- insight.zdnet.co.uk
- Help & HowTo: Goner.
- The Goner worm is spreading rapidly by email, and once activated, it shuts down antivirus and firewall protection.
- Goner's (w32. Goner. ... " Besides spreading rapidly by email, and therefore posing a threat to email servers, Goner spreads via ICQ and also shuts down antivirus and firewall protection, leaving your Windows computer vulnerable to other attacks. ...
- Goner arrives by ICQ or email bearing a subject line of "Hi" with the body text of "How are you ? When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you I am in a harry, I promise you will love it!" The attached file is gone. ...
- The payload of Goner is written in Visual Basic 6, packed with a UPX file compressor, and is 39KB in size. ...
- Goner uses the Outbook Address Book to find addresses to send email copies of itself. If ICQ, a favorite program of script kiddies, is also present on the infected computer, Goner will attempt to spread copies of itself through that service as well. ...
- Goner disables antivirus and firewall protection by attempting to delete the following files: .
- If Goner can't delete the files immediately, it will create a WININIT. ...
- For more information on removing this Goner from your system, see Central Command, F-Secure, Kaspersky, Sophos, Symantec, and Trend Micro. ...
- Goner proves social viruses still a threat.
- 'Goner' worm spreading fast.
14. Goner
- www.perantivirus.com
- GONER, gusano que para infectar deshabilita Antivirus y Firewalls. ...
- Goner. ... Goner, W32/Goner@MM, Gone.
- Goner, es un gusano propagado en los primeros días de Diciembre del 2001 en los Estados Unidos y reportado en el Perú el 04 de Diciembre del mismo año, de gran difusión masiva a través de mensajes de correo electrónico vía Internet, con un archivo anexado denominado GONE. ...
- Goner ha sido desarrollado en lenguaje Visual Basic 6. ...
- Haciendo uso de las funciones de las librerías MAPI (Messaging Application Programming Interface), una vez que un sistema es infectado, Goner se auto-envía a todos los buzones de la libreta de direcciones de MS Outlook, en un mensaje de correo:.
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16. Business users victims and villains in Goner outbreak | The Register
- www.theregister.co.uk
- The Register » Security » Anti-Virus » Business users victims and villains in Goner outbreak.
- Business users were the worst offenders in this week's spread of the Goner worm and many firms were slow to update antiviral protection during the outbreak.
- B viruses -the last major piece of malware to go feral before Goner -stopped by MessageLabs came from home users.
- Goner is a relatively unsophisticated worm in its design and the psychological tricks it attempts to pull in order to get people infected and Shipp attributes part of its success in spreading to the current "silly season". ...
- MessageLabs has blocked more than 230,000 copies of Goner since it first appeared on the Internet this week, with one in 30 emails containing the virus at the peak of epidemic. Incidents of the virus began tailing off yesterday and MessageLabs has blocked only around 5,000 copies of Goner so far today.
- Goner normally arrives as an email with the subject line 'Hi' and carries an infected attachment called GONE. ...
- Goner also drops scripts, which can be used to flood certain IRC channels, if IRC is installed. ...
17. The Namibian | Techtalk | 'Goner' worm hitting corporate, individual PCs
- www.namibian.com.na
- 'Goner' worm hitting corporate, individual PCs .
- SAN FRANCISCO/LONDON - A new computer worm named "Goner" was spreading quickly through corporate and personal e-mail inboxes on Tuesday, deleting system files and clogging networks in what could be the the biggest outbreak since last year's "Love Letter" virus, security software vendors said.
- "Goner is one of the most incredibly fast moving and potentially dangerous e-mail viruses we've seen," said Mark Sunner, chief technology officer of MessageLabs Inc.
- The Goner worm arrives in an attachment masquerading as a screen saver, with an e-mail subject line of "Hi" and text that says: "How are you? When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you I am in a harry (sic), I promise you will love it!".
- Goner also tries to install a back door on machines which could turn them into launch pads for denial of service attacks, said Symantec Corp.
- The firm has issued a "high risk" warning on Goner, the same rating it assigned this summer's virulent Code Red worm.
18. Re: Kobe's a goner
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19. F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Goner
- www.f-secure.com
- F-Secure Virus Descriptions : Goner.
- Goner.
- W32/Goner. ... Goner, Gone, Pentagone, Pentagon.
- Goner is a mass-mailer written in Visual Basic. ...
- NOTE: Although many other anti-virus companies rank Goner to their highest risk level, F-Secure is still maintaining this virus at F-Secure Radar Level 2. ...
- Goner also tries to delete security programs, such as firewalls and anti-virus programs from the system. Although this sounds serious, it doesn't actually help the spreading of the virus much: the virus can only delete security programs if it is able to execute itself; thus the security program was not able to stop Goner anyway, and deleting such programs doesn't help the virus. ...
- F-Secure Anti-Virus detects Goner worm with updates from December 4th, 2001 / 16:05:50 (GMT+2) .
20. 'Goner' Internet worm makes comeback
- www.usatoday.com
- 'Goner' Internet worm makes comeback.
- Goner attempts to delete critical files for any security or anti-virus program the victim might have installed.
- SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) The so-called "Goner" Internet worm was still infecting computers in the United States Wednesday, after wreaking havoc there and in Europe Tuesday, but was leaving Asia relatively unscathed, software security experts said. ... The company's online scanning service Tuesday encountered a peak of 21,000 Goner worms per hour around 3 p. ...
- New 'Goner' virus hits Net .
- Experts said there were signs Goner's infestation was slowing, but that it was likely to persist into next week. An anti-virus consultant for Sophos Anti-Virus in the UK said it was likely that the number of Goner victims would be in the hundreds of thousands before it disappeared from view.
- "It's not a complex one," Trend Micro's Genes said of Goner.
- Security experts said Goner's uncomplicated coding and the fact it targeted some chat users led them to suspect the author was a teenager.
21. Wired News: 'Goner' E-Mail Worm Strikes Hard
- www.wired.com
- 'Goner' E-Mail Worm Strikes Hard .
- SAN FRANCISCO -- A new computer worm named "Goner" was spreading quickly through corporate and personal e-mail inboxes Tuesday, deleting system files and clogging networks in what could be the biggest outbreak since last year's "Love Letter" virus, security software vendors said. ...
- The Goner worm arrives in an attachment masquerading as a screensaver, with an e-mail subject line of "Hi" and text that says: "How are you? When I saw this screen saver, I immediately thought about you I am in a harry (sic), I promise you will love it!" .
22. Papers: Two Viruses: The Goner Virus and The BadTrans.B Virus
- www.itsecurity.com
- Two Viruses: The Goner Virus and The BadTrans. ...
- The Goner Virus.
- Goner started deleting system files and clogging networks in what looked like the biggest outbreak since the Love Letter virus of 2000, according to CNBC. ...
- Goner, also known as Pentagone and Gone, masquerades as a screensaver sent via email, ICQ, or mIRC (a chat client) from someone known to the recipient. ...
- Goner then sends infected messages to the address book entries for Outlook, Outlook Express, ICQ, and mIRC. ... As a result, CNET expects the number of Goner infections to soar into the hundreds of thousands. And once inside a companys network, Goners attack on the mIRC address book is so effective that it functions as a denial-of-service attack against that networks IRC servers. ...
- In fact, Symantec was forced to upgrade the threat level of the Goner virus from level 3 to level 4 several days after they had released the new profile--"due to the increased rate of submission and level of damage. ...
- As if this didnt make the job of a network administrator difficult enough, Goner has special features that exploit the challenges in managing security policy in the enterprise. First, Goners ability to hijack ICQ and IRC networks allows it to move unnoticed past anti-virus and IDS products. ... Second, Goner is very effective at gaining access to enterprise networks through telecommuters and employees who check personal email accounts at work. ...
23. V E B X uGoner v É A “ ` E B X e Ð ª x `ICQ à ´õ g É
- internet.watch.impress.co.jp
24. Goner worm spreads, tries to delete firewalls
- www.infoworld.com
- Goner worm spreads, tries to delete firewalls .
- A NEW HIGH-RISK worm, called "Goner," which attempts to delete a number of program files on infected computers, including firewall applications, is spreading quickly Tuesday, according to a number of anti-virus firms.
- Goner does not exploit any security vulnerabilities like the recent Badtrans worm, but instead must have its attachment double-clicked in order to be launched, said April Goostree, virus research manager at Sunnyvale, Calif. ...
- Goner appears in user's in-boxes as an e-mail with the subject line "Hi. ...
- Goner also tries to spread through the ICQ chat program, sending a copy of itself to all online users, Trend Micro said on its Web site. ...
- After launch, Goner attempts to locate and delete a number of programs, including security programs such as Zone Labs' ZoneAlarm firewall application, McAfee. ...
- The number of users infected with Goner is already "very, very large," Goostree said, although she did not have an exact number available.
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