MSN Messenger spreading the "Choke Worm" worm

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Greetings from The VACM Team,

Hoax of the day... and a worm, to boot...

The Bottom Line
----------------------------
If you get an email warning you to delete all .ZIP files
from your system, don't. Just delete the email.

This supposed "helpful" message is about a worm called
"Choke Worm". The "Choke Worm" is indeed a worm. It only
spreads via MSN Messenger. It has no destructive payload.
It will not trash all the .ZIP files on your system.

If You Actually Got Infected By CHOKE WORM...
------------------------------------------------
The Choke worm arrives via MSN Messenger as an .EXE file.
It does not mess with any ZIP files on your system and there
is absolutely no need for anyone to delete all the .ZIP files
on their systems.

If you use MSN Messenger, and you double-clicked on the .EXE file,
you probably did get infected. The .EXE files are usually one
of the following:

ShootPresidentBUSH.exe,
Choke.exe,
Hotmail.exe,
or a filename using the sender's name with an .exe extension.

Basically, ANY .exe file received via MSN Messenger should be
considered infected until proven otherwise.

What You Should Do...
---------------------------
Update your antivirus software and do a full scan or your
system and let your antivirus software do the cleanup.

You can ignore the rest of this message unless you want a little
more detail on Choke Worm....

Additional Info...
---------------------------
Choke Worm sends itself to all your MSN Messenger contacts
with the following message:

"President bush shooter is game that allows you to
shoot Bush balzz hahaha"

Again, the worm has no malicious payload. It simply sends itself to
others via the MSN Messenger service.

Depending on which antivirus software you use, the Choke Worm might
also be referred to as "Psychopatt".

This is the second such worm to spread itself
via Microsoft's MSN Messenger program.

The first such worm was sent as an attachment named Hello.exe with
the message:

"I have a file for u. Its real funny"

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Marc Deschenes, VACM Editor
The VACM Project at
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* How To Boot into Safe Mode

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