VBS/Dismissed.A

VBS/Dismissed.A	Destructivity: Spreading: Overall risk:

• Detected by virus detection files published: 12/20/2001	• Type: Virus
• Virus characteristics first published: 12/20/2001	• Spreading mechanism: Network, Webpage, IRC, File Infection
• Virus characteristics latest update: 12/17/2003	• Overall risk: Low
• Alias: VBS/Maldal.C	• Payload: File deletion
• Infection type: Microsoft Visual Basic Script

The infectious home page is now closed.

The planting of the malicious vbscript ROL.VBS is done through a known security hole in Internet Explorer - the Microsoft VM ActiveX Component Vulnerability.

This security hole can be closed by applying the patch available from:

http://www.microsoft.com/technet/treeview/default.asp?url=/technet/security/bulletin/MS00-075.asp

There is also an updated variant of this virus: VBS/Dismissed.B@mm.

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