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Overview

This is a virus detection. Viruses are programs that self-replicate recursively, meaning that infected systems spread the virus to other systems, which then propagate the virus further. While many viruses contain a destructive payload, it's quite common for viruses to do nothing more than spread from one system to another.

Aliases

• I-Worm.Mylife (AVP)

• W32.Mylife@mm (NAV)

• W32/Mylife (Panda)

• W32/MyLife@MM

• Win32.MyLife.A (CA)

• WORM_MYLIFE.A (Trend)

Characteristics

This mass-mailing worm, written in Visual Basic 6, uses Microsoft Outlook to send itself to all addresses in the Outlook Address book. It arrives in an email containing the following information:

The attachment is a UPX packed PE file. When executed on the local machine, the following image is displayed whilst the worm copies itself to the System folder, and uses Outlook to propagate itself to all address found in the Outlook Address book:

The following Registry key is added to ensure the worm is executed at subsequent system startup:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\_
   Run 'stmgr' = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\My Life.scr

Upon restarting the machine, the worm does not propagate again, and the above image is not displayed. Instead the worm is intended to delete the following system files from the infected machine:

• *.COM and *.SYS from C:\
• *.COM, *.SYS, *.INI and *.EXE from C:\WINDOWS
• *.SYS, *.VXD, *.EXE and *.DLL from C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM

However, due to a bug, this payload fails and no files were observed to be deleted in testing.

Symptoms

• Presence of: MY LIFE.SCR (30,720 bytes) in the system directory.
• Messages bearing the properties described above in your 'Sent Mail' folder.

Method of Infection

When executed, the worm propagates itself to all addresses found in the Outlook Address book using Micrsoft Outlook. The worm copies itself to the System folder, modifying the Registry to run this copy at subsequent startup.

Removal

All Users:
Use current engine and DAT files for detection and removal.

If the virus executed on the system, the user may have to reinstall the operating system, and all applications.

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Variants

Variants

N/A

All Information

Overview -

This is a virus detection. Viruses are programs that self-replicate recursively, meaning that infected systems spread the virus to other systems, which then propagate the virus further. While many viruses contain a destructive payload, it's quite common for viruses to do nothing more than spread from one system to another.

Aliases

• I-Worm.Mylife (AVP)

• W32.Mylife@mm (NAV)

• W32/Mylife (Panda)

• W32/MyLife@MM

• Win32.MyLife.A (CA)

• WORM_MYLIFE.A (Trend)

Characteristics

Characteristics -

This mass-mailing worm, written in Visual Basic 6, uses Microsoft Outlook to send itself to all addresses in the Outlook Address book. It arrives in an email containing the following information:

The attachment is a UPX packed PE file. When executed on the local machine, the following image is displayed whilst the worm copies itself to the System folder, and uses Outlook to propagate itself to all address found in the Outlook Address book:

The following Registry key is added to ensure the worm is executed at subsequent system startup:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\_
   Run 'stmgr' = C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM\My Life.scr

Upon restarting the machine, the worm does not propagate again, and the above image is not displayed. Instead the worm is intended to delete the following system files from the infected machine:

• *.COM and *.SYS from C:\
• *.COM, *.SYS, *.INI and *.EXE from C:\WINDOWS
• *.SYS, *.VXD, *.EXE and *.DLL from C:\WINDOWS\SYSTEM

However, due to a bug, this payload fails and no files were observed to be deleted in testing.

Symptoms

Symptoms -

• Presence of: MY LIFE.SCR (30,720 bytes) in the system directory.
• Messages bearing the properties described above in your 'Sent Mail' folder.

Method of Infection

Method of Infection -

When executed, the worm propagates itself to all addresses found in the Outlook Address book using Micrsoft Outlook. The worm copies itself to the System folder, modifying the Registry to run this copy at subsequent startup.

Removal -

Removal -

All Users:
Use current engine and DAT files for detection and removal.

If the virus executed on the system, the user may have to reinstall the operating system, and all applications.

Additional Windows ME/XP removal considerations

Variants

Variants -

N/A