W32.Pops

W32.Pops is a Microsoft Outlook worm that tries to send itself to all email addresses in the Microsoft Outlook address book. There are two variants of this worm: variant A, which is 5 KB in size, variant B, which is about 7 KB in size. Both of these are upx packed. Norton AntiVirus detects both variants as W32.Pops.

Protection

• Initial Rapid Release version January 17, 2002
• Latest Rapid Release version July 12, 2008 revision 018
• Initial Daily Certified version January 17, 2002
• Latest Daily Certified version July 12, 2008 revision 019
• Initial Weekly Certified release date pending

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