LYCOS RETRIEVER 
Babylonia
built 126 days ago
[One] very important detail is that W95.Babylonia is able to modify Wsock32.dll when the file is not loaded in memory. The virus adds a very short hook routine to the "Send" API of Wsock32.dll similar to the Happy99 worm. This short hook routine transfers control to the active part of the virus code when an email is sent. The end result of this code is that the virus adds a MIME-encoded attachment of itself to all outgoing email... increasing its rate of spread. W95.Babylonia is technically a worm, as well as a virus.
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Babylonia was the Greek name for the country, derived from the name of the capital city Babylon, this last ... a Grecized form from the Semitic Bab-ilu, Heb. Babel, "Gate of God." By the earliest inhabitants known the whole land was called Edin, "the Plain." In Gen. x, 10 the name given it is Shinar, the derivation of which is in dispute. The most probable origin is from Sungir, a variant reading of Girsu. The g in Sungir represents the Semitic ghayin which could be represented in Hebrew only by ayin; the word would then be transliterated Sn'r and could be pronounced Shinar. The land was known to the Hebrews also as Erez Kasdim, "Land of the Kasdim," the second word a variation for Kaldu, Hebraized Kaldim.
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At a period when Hebrew was still spoken in Palestine—at least in scholarly circles—the people in Babylonia had already adopted Aramaic, owing to the proximity of the Aramaic-Syriac districts. Hillel is expressly stated to have spoken a Babylonian Aramaic or Targum dialect (Ab. R. N. xii., p. 55, ed. Schechter). This dialect, of which the Babylonian Talmud is the chief literary monument, was closely related to the tongue of the natives, such as the Mandæans speak to-day. Persian never became the vernacular of the Babylonian Jews: a few words only were borrowed from it; more, perhaps, than from the Greek (Levias, "A Grammar of the Aramaic Idiom . . . in the Babylonian Talmud," pp. 3, 237, Cincinnati, 1900).
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Wealthy Jews in Babylonia, North Africa, and Spain in the tenth century had a comparable situation. Like the Jews of Alexandria, they were attracted to the rediscovered Greek philosophers and many were considering rejecting their Jewish practices.
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Of equal antiquity with the religion of Egypt, that of Babylonia and Assyria possesses some marked differences as to its development. Beginning among the non-Semitic Sumero-Akkadian population, it maintained for a long time its uninterrupted development, affected mainly by influences from within, namely, the homogeneous local cults which acted and reacted upon each other. The religious systems of other nations did not greatly affect the development of the early non-Semitic religious system of Babylonia. A time at last came... when the influence of the Semitic inhabitants of Babylonia and Assyria was not to be gainsaid, and from that moment, the development of their religion took another turn. In all probably this augmentation of Semitic religious influence was due to the increased numbers of the Semitic population, and at the same period the Sumero-Akkadian language began to give way to the Semitic idiom which they spoke. When at last the Semitic Babylonian language came to be used for official documents, we find that, although the non-Semitic divine names are in the main preserved, a certain number of them have been displaced by the Semitic equivalent names, such as Šamaš for the sun-god, with Kittu and Mêšaru ("justice and righteousness") his attendants; Nabú ("the teacher" = Nebo) with his consort Tašmêtu ("the hearer"); Addu, Adad, or Dadu, and Rammanu, Ramimu, or Ragimu = Hadad or Rimmon ("the thunderer"); Bêl and Bêltu (Beltis = "the lord" and "the lady" par excellence), with some others of inferior rank.
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Babylonia will monitor for an Internet connection and if made, will attempt to connect to a virus authoring group website hosted in Japan to download new components of the virus. When the components are downloaded, the virus will use them to further spread and/or will execute the newly delivered payload. The existing components instruct the virus to send the email to a specific email account and to modify the Autoexec.bat as noted above. If mIRC is installed, the existing components will modify the script.ini configuration file, and when the user connects to an IRC channel the virus infected file "2KBug-MircFix.exe" will be automatically sent to all other connected parties. New components simply need to be listed on the Web site to be downloaded onto the user's machine and executed via the virus, which checks back with the Web site every 60 seconds when an Internet connection is active. Thus a more malicious payload could take effect almost instantly if released when a high percentage of users were likely to be online.
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