Kaspersky Lab, an international data-security software-development company, announces the discovery of a new Internet-worm, "Prolin," that has been developed by an unknown hacker going by the pseudonym of "The Penguin." To date, Kaspersky Lab has received many reports of infections by this worm from Poland. The "Prolin" worm is capable of operating on Windows 2000. For normal operating under other versions of the operating system (Windows 95/98, Windows NT), the worm requires the Visual Basic 6.0 run-time library MSVBVM60.DLL, which is not included in the package by default.
"Prolin" spreads using e-mail messages masquerading as a great Shockwave Flash movie. In order to initiate the e-mail spreading routine, the worm gains access to the MS Outlook address book, reads found e-mail addresses, and sends the following message to the addresses:
Check out this new flash movie that I downloaded just now ... It's great Bye
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