In addition to Standard licensing, the company also offers Premier licensing, allowing generated
EXE files to run on up to 100 additional computers.
"Whereas analysts are usually very careful about exchanging
EXE files, since so much malware spreads that way, it is often only in professionally--run and security-conscious malware labs that the same sort of precaution is taken with every type of file," said, Head of Technology, Asia Pacific, SophosLabs.
Because Thinstall creates applications that are deployed and run as a single
EXE file, it eliminates dependencies on outside shared components.
Just download he ZIP file, extract it to a folder of your choice, and double-click the
EXE file in it.
The body of the message includes 'Before use read the help', 'Thanks for use of our software' and 'February Price' and a PE
EXE file, between 16kb and 20kb in size, is attached.
The StartPage program is a Zip-Archive that contains two files--one HTML file and one
EXE file. Upon opening the HTML file the StartPage code is launched and proceeds to exploit the Internet Explorer security system vulnerability known as 'Exploit.SelfExecHtm".
`The virus relies entirely upon you running an infected
EXE file, yet we are already seeing reports suggesting that this virus could spread via websites containing so-called `infectious' images.
The worm itself is a Windows PE
EXE file about 230Kb in size, written in Delphi it is compressed by UPX -- the decompressed size is about 670Kb.