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Win32/Locksky
Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus
Aliases: W32/Looksky.gen@mm (McAfee) WORM_LOCKSKY (Trend Micro)
Summary
Win32/Locksky@mm is a family of mass-mailing worms that targets Microsoft Windows. The worm sends itself as an attachment to e-mail addresses that it finds in files on the infected computer. The worm is activated when a user opens the attachment.