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Old 07-20-2004, 07:24 PM  
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Originally posted by DonovanPhillips
SOMEBODY better take the blame.
This is a mass-mailing worm with the following characteristics:

contains its own SMTP engine to construct outgoing messages
harvests email addresses from the victim machine
the From: address of messages is spoofed
attachment can be a password-protected zip file, with the password included in the message body.
contains a remote access component (notification is sent to hacker)
copies itself to folders that have the phrase shar in the name (such as common peer-to-peer applications; KaZaa, Bearshare, Limewire, etc)
uses various mutex names selected from those W32/Netsky variants have used, in order to prevent those W32/Netsky variants running on infected machines
terminates processes of security programs and other worms
deletes registry entries of security programs and other worms

damn sound like some hacker is going to make a dime or two, I don't understand why stuff like this is so hard to track down. Let a mahine get infected and trace the e-mails, then track the guy down by his affalite ID's. But he's probally from some 3d world country so it's useless.
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