This threat is not in the wild and considered to be a low risk. It is currently detected with the 4150 DATs (or newer) as VBS/Generic@MM when scanning compressed files. Exact detection under the VBS/Chick.b@M name will be included in the 4195 DATs. This Compiled HTML Help file contains VBScript to email itself to the first user in the Microsoft Outlook address book using MAPI messaging. It arrives in an email message containing the following information.
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