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UPDATE: The media misinterpreted information found on the Japanese Microsoft Xbox website. Turns out the following is untrue. See the updated news article: Microsoft issues correction regarding Japanese Xbox recall

Microsoft Corp. is recalling the Xbox video-game console in Japan because of a defect two weeks after its debut in the country, setting back its entry into the home turf of rivals Sony Corp. and Nintendo Co.

Some of the 250,000 consoles shipped in Japan make scratches on the perimeter of a game disk, said Microsoft Co., the Japanese unit of the world's biggest software maker. The recall comes a week before the console's debut in Europe on March 14.

Xbox debuted in Japan on Feb. 22 with Microsoft Chairman Bill Gates distributing the first Japanese-version to a 22-year-old student, the first among hundreds of customers lined outside a video store in Tokyo's Shibuya shopping district. The recall will hurt the company's attempt to wrest market share from Sony's PlayStation 2 and Nintendo's GameCube game consoles in their home market, investors said.

News source: Bloomberg.com
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The message then goes on to describe the vulnerabilities the worm purports to correct.

The worm, written in Visual Basic, uses Microsoft Outlook and its own SMTP engine to spread. When Q216309.exe it creates two copies of itself, drops the component which uses Outlook and SMTP to spread, creates a Backdoor Trojan that opens port 12378, creates a data file that it uses to store all e-mail addresses it finds, and creates another component that searches for e-mail addresses from the Outlook Address Book and all addresses found in .htm, .html, .asp, and .php files. Once the final component has those e-mail addresses, it writes them to the data file.

Finnish security firm F-Secure Corp. said Wednesday that victims can get rid of the worm by deleting all its components from an infected system. It noted that if some components are locked while Windows is active, they have to be deleted from pure DOS or renamed with a different extension with immediate system restart.

Many anti-virus firms have already updated their virus definitions to detect the worm.