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Win32/Gibe
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: W32/Gibe@MM (McAfee) W32.Gibe@mm (Symantec) WORM_GIBE (Trend Micro)
Summary
Windows Defender Antivirus detects and removes this threat.
Win32/Gibe is a family of mass-mailing network worms that targets certain versions of Microsoft Windows.
The worm spreads primarily by sending a copy of itself as an attachment to e-mail addresses found on the infected computer. It can also spread through writeable network shares, IRC channels, and peer-to-peer network file sharing.
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