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NAME: Onthefly ALIAS: VBSWG ALIAS: I-Worm.Lee.o, SST, VBS_Kalamar VBS/Onthefly is an encrypted Visual Basic Script worm which spreads (mass mails) itself using Microsoft Outlook application. On February 12th, 2001 this worm has spread rapidly in all over the world in just a few hours. Update on 14th of February, 2001: The outbreak caused by this virus seems to be quieting down now. It seems that the virus caused biggest infection in North America on the 12th of February. This seemed to caused largely because of timezone issues; at this time it was late evening or night time in Europe and Asia. When people in Europe woke up on the 13th, most antivirus programs already handled the virus and the media was warning users from not touching Kournikova-themed attachments. F-Secure estimates that Onthefly-virus infected several hundreds of thousands of computers worldwide, putting this virus into the same category with Melissa virus in 1999 - which was the largest virus case of its time. However, Onthefly was significantly smaller than LoveLetter. Additionally, Onthefly did not do any direct damage. The author of the virus ("OnTheFly") has been found. His real-world identity has been found as well and passed on the the officials for further investigation. | |
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