The variant of Nuwar (aka Storm) worm happynewyear2008.exe

Been receiving the email that will try to encourage user to click a link:

stormdec2007   stormdec2007b

Hopefully users don't fall into it or else, your browser might download the happynewyear2008.exe:

stormdec2007a   stormdec2007c

Too bad... only 14 malware scanner will detect the variant of Storm worm (as of the time of this writing) :

stormdec2007vt   stormdec2007vt1

stormdec2007vtr   stormdec2007vtr1

Be very careful.  Happy Safe Computing!!

Published Fri, Dec 28 2007 9:06 by donna

Comments

Saturday, December 29, 2007 1:00 PM by scott

# re: The variant of Nuwar (aka Storm) worm happynewyear2008.exe

Thanks for the info. I knew it was some sort of virus. I've probably gotten at least 6 of these a day for a week now.

Saturday, December 29, 2007 11:39 PM by Donna's SecurityFlash

# Variant of Nuwar/Storm worm. 10 out of 32 detects it

See earlier report on this happynewyear2008.exe where 14 out of 32 will detect a variant of storm worm

Sunday, December 30, 2007 1:11 AM by shriyash

# re: The variant of Nuwar (aka Storm) worm happynewyear2008.exe

thanks for posting.

www.dslreports.com/.../r19706220-Firefox-alerts-to-this-page-being-a-Web-Forgery-

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 2:36 PM by NMix

# re: The variant of Nuwar (aka Storm) worm happynewyear2008.exe

my pc have the virus what i can do to erase him from my computer???

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:08 PM by donna

# re: The variant of Nuwar (aka Storm) worm happynewyear2008.exe

NMix,

The Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool will detect and try to remove that worm.  Get it from www.microsoft.com/.../details.aspx

Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:43 PM by Back from holidays;Greeted with bad and good emails;Storm Worm removal tools - Donna's SecurityFlash

# Back from holidays;Greeted with bad and good emails;Storm Worm removal tools - Donna's SecurityFlash

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Thursday, January 03, 2008 2:51 PM by Kiwi

# re: The variant of Nuwar (aka Storm) worm happynewyear2008.exe

hi, thanks for the tip,

my computer has the virus too, but the Microsoft Malicious Removal Tool didn't detect it, does someone have any other suggestions??

Saturday, January 05, 2008 2:32 AM by donna

# re: The variant of Nuwar (aka Storm) worm happynewyear2008.exe

Kiwi,

Try to scan using GMER.  Get it from http://www.gmer.net/files.php

Sunday, January 06, 2008 6:47 AM by Anthony

# re: The variant of Nuwar (aka Storm) worm happynewyear2008.exe

I have got Trojan.pandex, w32.mubla and trojan horse all from receiving the happy newyear2008 email. I have tried running symantec antivirus, spyware doctor, search and destroy, and gmr but none of them have worked they find them but cannot either remove them or quarantine them. Does anyone have any ideas i am pulling my hair out!!!!

Many thanks