W32/Alcaul family

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W32/Alcaul family Destructivity: Spreading: Overall risk:
  
• Detected by virus detection files published: 2/21/2002 • Type: Worm
• Virus characteristics first published: 2/21/2002 • Spreading mechanism: Email
• Virus characteristics latest update: 12/17/2003 • Overall risk: None
• Infection type: Microsoft Windows 95/98/98 SE/ME/NT 4/2000/XP/2003/Vista  

Virus type Spreading
mechanism 		Destructivity
and payload 		Additional
descriptions 		Detection
and removal
This is a huge series of worms written by the same author. They have been give a number of different names by different companies, but Norman has chosen to group them all together in the Alcaul family. Names used by other companies include (prefixes removed):
Sysnom, Freetrips, Janis, Alcarys, Syra, Toget, SexSounds, Monkey, Black, Porman, Alcop, 2002 and probably more.
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