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Trojan:JS/Nimda.A
Updated on Apr 23, 2008
Trojan:JS/Nimda.A is a trojan that attempts to open the malicious file “readme.eml” in the current folder. The file “readme.eml” is a malformed multipart MIME formatted message file dropped by Worm:Win32/Nimda, and it contains an encoded copy of Worm:Win32/Nimda.
Trojan:JS/Nimda.A takes advantage of a vulnerability corrected by MS01-020 (Incorrect MIME Header Can Cause IE to Execute E-mail Attachment).
Alert level:
severe