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	Mimail - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mimail is a computer worm which first emerged in August of 2003 ; it is transmitted via e-mail.
		Since its initial release, nearly two dozen variants of the original Mimail worm have appeared.
		The Mydoom worm, which emerged in January 2004, was initially believed to be a variant of Mimail.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mimail (76 words)

	Mimail Worm Hits Companies Already on High Alert
		Mimail is a worm that takes advantage of a vulnerability in Microsoft Corp.'s Windows Explorer to harvest email addresses and propagate itself.
		Mimail doesn't carry a destructive payload, though, so only serves to clog up email systems and confuse users about a note from their administrator.
		Mimail was first detected this past Friday when it raised concerns around the security industry, which is already on high alert for an expected worm that could exploit a vulnerability in Windows desktop and server operating systems to cause significant slow-downs and damage across the Internet.
	www.esecurityplanet.com /trends/article.php/2244121 (737 words)

	W32.Mimail.A@mm aka Mimail worm Characteristics and Removal instructions. - SRN Micro
		Mimail modifies registry run section to load automatically on the next startup.
		Mimail worm uses a security vulnerablity in IE to infect.
		Solo has incorporated Mimail worm in its signature file to protect users from this Trojan attack.
	www.srnmicro.com /virusinfo/mimail.htm (271 words)

	New MiMail Strikes > New MiMail Strikes, Takes Shot At President Bush > January 7, 2004
		Additionally, the new MiMail resets the default start page of Internet Explorer to a URL which shows 19 photos of President Bush alongside images of chimps with similar expressions.
		"MiMail attacks have been relentless since the summer of 2003," said Ken Dunham, the director of malicious code for iDefense, a Reston, Va.-based security intelligence firm, in an e-mailed statement.
		Most security firms are in the process of updating their virus definitions to account for the new MiMail.
	www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20040107S0008 (512 words)

	theMAURITIUS.COM - Mimail Can Capture Keystrokes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mimail spreads by e-mail through a Zip attachment, which contains a VB script or executable file disguised as a photo or document with a double extension (.doc.scr,.jpg.exe).
		Mimail uses its own SMTP engine, spoofing the From address field as James@(your domain name), or John@(your domain name) to send copies of itself to the harvested addresses.
		When running on a victim's system, Mimail captures data from keystrokes as the victim uses her PC, and the data is sent randomly to hard coded in sites(5) in a Denial Of Service (DOS) attack.
	www.themauritius.com /article3250.html (3175 words)

	E-Commerce News: Security: MiMail Variant Poses as Legit PayPal E-Mail
		Security experts said the latest MiMail-I variant -- which spoofs official PayPal correspondence -- began to spread early Friday morning, and while it is not considered a particularly dangerous outbreak, it does mark a troubling trend away from virus-writing notoriety and toward profit as the motivation for creating malicious software -- or "malware."
		Dunham said the latest MiMail variant, which spreads by e-mailing copies of itself to e-mail addresses harvested from infected computers, continues a trend of "carefully planned, sequential attacks" that break from the tradition of copycat or script-kiddie viruses.
		Organizations were advised to filter against the MiMail variant file types (.asp.scr or.com.scr) and MIME data associated with the worm, but face a challenge because of the "inherent trust in clicking on links" in such cases, Dunham said.
	www.ecommercetimes.com /story/32150.html (906 words)

	Mimail variant targets surfers - Web User News
		Yet another variant of the malicious computer virus Mimail is on the loose and could be the first of many during 2004, security experts predict.
		The first appearance of Mimail was in August 2003 and many variants have spread ever since.
		The Mimail.C, Mimail.L and Mimail.M variants use the promise of pictures to target users and the Mimail.I, Mimail.J and Mimail.N variants attempt to trick surfers into giving out their credit card details.
	www.web-user.co.uk /news/47562.html (321 words)

	Phishing and viral tech combines in new menace \| The Register
		Mimail-I typically arrives in an email with a subject line of "YOUR PAYPAL.COM ACCOUNT EXPIRES", asking recipients to provide detailed information about their credit card, claiming that PayPal is "implementing a new security policy".
		Mimail-I is a Windows-only menace - Linux, Mac, OS/2 and Unix users are immune, as usual.
		Standard defence precautions against viral attacks from all variants of the worm apply: users should update their AV signature definition files to detect the virus and resist the temptation to open suspicious looking emails.
	www.theregister.co.uk /2003/11/14/phishing_and_viral_tech_combines (569 words)

	F-Secure Computer Virus Information Pages: Mimail.A
		Mimail is a mass-mailer which spreads in e-mails faked to look like an administrative e-mail from the local sysadmin.
		When the emails are sent the worm performs a Mail Exchange lookup on the DNS server for the email's target domain.
		If the MX can be located Mimail connects to it and delivers the mail using SMTP.
	www.f-secure.com /v-descs/mimail.shtml (325 words)

	Mimail mutant maximises Mydoom misery - Computing
		The devastation created by the Mydoom virus, which is still spreading, has been compounded by the detection of a previously unknown mutant of the Mimail virus.
		Mimail.S is more dangerous than Mydoom in that it tries to steal the credit card details belonging to the user of the infected computer.
		After the user has entered the requested data, Mimail.S checks whether the credit card number is correct and displays an error message if it is not.
	www.computing.co.uk /news/1152401 (623 words)

	Don Davidson Computer / Virus Help (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Other variants of the Mimail worm which are spreading widely on the internet pose as "private photos" taken at the beach.
		Sophos has received many reports of Mimail infections and anticipates the worm could be one of the biggest of 2003.
		Mimail's author has gone to great lengths to disguise his code as a legitimate email.
	home.earthlink.net /~doniteli/index15-13.htm (2725 words)

	Viruses \| Mimail Worm Variations Launch Multi-Pronged Attack \| Security Pipeline
		Variants of the Mimail worm released over the weekend continued to plague businesses Monday with higher-than-usual volumes of e-mail traffic as the worm propagated by stealing addresses and mass mailing itself to new unsuspecting victims.
		Although the damage to infected machines is minimal, the e-mail traffic Mimail generates as it spreads may have an impact on businesses, Belthoff said.
		Security firms have pegged the Mimail worm family as a medium or moderate threat, and none have revised their threat assessments since Mimail.C showed on Friday.
	www.securitypipeline.com /news/showArticle.jhtml?articleId=15800613 (878 words)

	Mimail Takes Five Spots On Virus List > Mimail Takes Five Spots In November's Top 10 Virus List > December 1, 2003
		The slew of variants of the Mimail worm accounted for 28 percent of November's viruses, security firm Sophos said Monday as it announced its monthly Top 10 list of threats.
		But while Mimail's mutations took up five of the spots in the list, the number one problem maker was W32/Sober-A, a bilingual worm.
		Mimail shoved a number of older, better-known viruses and worms down Sophos' list, replacing such standbys as Dumaru, Nachi, and Klez during November, noted the company.
	www.techweb.com /wire/story/TWB20031201S0002 (321 words)

	Worm masquerades as note from IT staff \| Tech News on ZDNet (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The worm, which is being dubbed "mimail," attempts to exploit a vulnerability in Internet Explorer that allows a script to be executed by an infected computer.
		The federal government warned this week that a widespread flaw in Windows could be used to generate an attack.
		In terms of its method, the mimail bug is somewhat similar to other mass-mailing worms, said Sharon Ruckman, a senior director at Symantec Security Response.
	zdnet.com.com /2100-1105_2-5059087.html (423 words)

	New e-mail worm, W32.Mimail, spreading \| InfoWorld \| News \| 2003-08-01 \| By Paul Roberts, IDG News Service
		However, the Mimail's spread could also be due to its ability to mask itself as an internal administrative message, tricking users into trusting the message, he said.
		In addition, Mimail's malicious code is embedded in a compressed format file, making it difficult for some gateway antivirus products to detect the attack, he said.
		While it appears Mimail simply steals e-mail addresses and sends copies of itself out to unsuspecting users, McAfee AVERT is still studying the virus for other malicious activities such as installing Trojan programs that could allow malicious hackers to gain access to the machine at a later date,' Gullotto said.
	www.infoworld.com /article/03/08/01/HNw32mail_1.html (1304 words)

	Internet Security Systems - (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mimail takes advantage of a vulnerability in Internet Explorer to hide an executable program within what appears to be a benign HTML file delivered to recipients via email.
		The Mimail worm was designed specifically to appear to be benign, and to execute via a flaw in Internet Explorer.
		After the registry key is created, Mimail harvests email addresses by scanning files and recording email addresses in "eml.tmp" in the Windows directory.
	xforce.iss.net /xforce/alerts/id/149 (769 words)

	How do I protect my computer from the Mimail.J (W32.Mimail.J@mm) worm? - Viruses & Security - HiWAAY Support FAQs
		The Mimail worm is still going strong and has appeared in a new version with a new wormy twist.The newest version, called W32.Mimail.J@mm, not only uses infected computers to spread itself via email, it also attempts to steal personal information.
		Like the other nine version of Mimail, Mimail.J scans the infected system for email addresses in all readable files and then spreads by sending email through its own built-in mail server to each of the addresses it found.
		Mimail is consistent in the email it spews.
	www.hiwaay.net /support/faq/index.cgi?view=1&id=295&catid=88 (555 words)

	Mimail Becomes Fourth Most Damaging Virus
		Even though the Mimail virus didn't achieve the threat level or the media coverage that its malicious code cohorts, Sobig and Blaster, did a few months ago, it has become the fourth most damaging virus of all times.
		The recent Mimail viruses are a refined version of an online scam known as ''phishing'' in which malevolents send emails that appear to come from a major bank or company.
		Mimail's use of an executable program that collects and sends the data back to the attacker makes it difficult for victim companies to stop the scam swiftly by calling on internet service providers (ISPs) to shut down a particular web site.
	itmanagement.earthweb.com /secu/article.php/3112921 (829 words)

	E-Commerce News: Security: MiMail E-Mail Worm Spreads Quickly
		The MiMail message requests users to read an attachment to find out about the expiration of their e-mail account, which should raise flags because most accounts do not expire.
		For his part, Ingevaldson said MiMail marks another instance of a trend toward coupling virus and vulnerability, whereby virus writers use exploitable weaknesses to spread worms.
		Although a patch was made available in late April for the Outlook Express vulnerability that is exploited by MiMail, the usual reluctance to apply patches left systems at risk.
	www.ecommercetimes.com /story/31256.html (854 words)

	Mimail worm tops virus chart - ZDNet UK News
		The arrival of Mimail comes amid heightened fears that a large-scale attack on the Internet could be looming.
		In its method, the mimail bug is somewhat similar to other mass-mailing worms, said Sharon Ruckman, a senior director at Symantec Security Response.
		What's trickier than usual, she said, is the way the email that carriesthe worm tries to get people to open the attachment.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /0,39020330,39115436,00.htm (545 words)

	New Scientist Breaking News - Latest email virus blamed on spammers (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		The latest variant of a six-month old virus called Mimail appears to be being used as a double-pronged spammer's tool, says a victim of the attack, the anti-spam company Spamhaus.
		Spamhaus believe that a notorious team of US-based spammers is behind the Mimail attack.
		They blame the same team for another variant that was also released this weekend called W32.Mimail.C, also known as Mimail.E. Instead of causing computers to flood anti-spam websites with requests, W32.Mimail.C targets websites with the phrase "darkprofits" in their URL, including darkprofits.net and darkprofits.com.
	www.newscientist.com /article.ns?id=dn4340 (608 words)

	Webwereld \| Mimail-virus misbruikt Microsoft-gaten
		Mimail slaat tot nu toe met name toe in de Verenigde Staten.
		Volgens virusbestrijder MessageLabs staat Mimail inmiddels op de tweede plaats in de lijst met meest voorkomende virussen.
		Mimail wordt het vaakst onderschept in de Verenigde Staten.
	www.webwereld.nl /nieuws/15812.phtml (447 words)

	Mass-mailing 'Mimail' worm on the loose - Computerworld
		Mimail, a new Internet worm that spreads via e-mail, is on the loose, mainly in the U.S., according to security companies.
		Mimail, similar to the Klez worm, spreads itself by using two Internet Explorer vulnerabilities for which Microsoft Corp. has already released patches, according to the Panda Software Virus Laboratory in Glendale, Calif. The subject line is "your account," which is followed by a random number.
		Kaspersky Labs said Mimail continues to spread by sending copies of itself to all the e-mail addresses in an infected computer's address book.
	computerworld.com /securitytopics/security/story/0,10801,83711,00.html (911 words)

	PCWorld.com - Mimail Worm Spawns Variants
		The new variants are similar to a version of the worm that appeared last week, Mimail.C, and contain instructions to launch distributed denial of service (DDoS) attacks against a number of antispam and e-commerce Web sites, according to alerts posted by Sophos, Symantec, and others.
		The new variations, dubbed Mimail.E, Mimail.F, and Mimail.H all spread using e-mail messages taken from the hard drives of computers the worm infects, Sophos said.
		Though they are different from the first Mimail worm and the Mimail.C variant, the new Mimail variants are similar to each other, Belthoff says.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,113235,00.asp (502 words)

	Urban Legends Reference Pages: Computers (Mimail)
		Mimail, a self-replicating worm, hit the Internet in August 2003.
		The Mimail worm does not appear to cause any damage to the systems it infects (other than using them as bases from which to spread itself).
		Microsoft has released a patch for Outlook Express which closes the security hole exploited by Mimail.
	www.snopes.com /computer/virus/mimail.asp (138 words)

	Noticias: El virus MiMail se propaga rápidamente gracias a su capacidad de mutación.
		Noticias: El virus MiMail se propaga rápidamente gracias a su capacidad de mutación.
		El virus MiMail se propaga rápidamente gracias a su capacidad de mutación.
		La pasada semana se daba a conocer en todos los medios especializados la aparición de una nueva mutación (la llamada C) del viejo conocido MiMail, que irrumpía fuerte en el panorama vírico mundial hace algo más de un año.
	www.delitosinformaticos.com /seguridad/noticias/106793694280319.shtml (423 words)

	Panda Software - About
		PandaLabs has detected three new variants, E, F and G, of the Mimail worm which, according to data collected by Panda Software’s international tech support network, have already started causing incidents.
		The new variants of Mimail are very similar to their predecessors and are designed to mass mail themselves using their own SMTP engine.
		The characteristics of the messages carrying the different variants of Mimail are available in Panda Software’s Virus Encyclopedia.
	www.pandasoftware.com /about/press/viewNews.aspx?noticia=4363 (360 words)

	PCWorld.com - New Virus Appears as PayPal Scam (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Mimail (pronounced "my mail") arrives in an e-mail that appears to be from PayPal.
		Mimail is a "relatively easy one to explain.
		Users of Symantec's Norton AntiVirus products, as well as security programs from BitDefender and Network Associates, were able to download the appropriate protection by last Friday morning.
	www.pcworld.com /news/article/0,aid,113478,00.asp (599 words)

	Mimail variant trys PayPal fraud - ZDNet UK News (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-05)
		Users are being warned about a new variant of the Mimail worm on the loose that takes victims to a fake PayPal Web page in an attempt to steal credit card details.
		The variant, W32/Mimail-I, hits inboxes with the subject line "Your Paypal.com account expires" and tells the user they need to update their credit card details because of a new security policy being implemented.
		Not only are gullible or unsuspecting users fleeced of their credit card details but Mimail-I sends itself to everybody whose email address appears on the victim's hard disk in order to spread itself.
	news.zdnet.co.uk /internet/security/0,39020375,39117909,00.htm (445 words)

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