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Soul Rebel, that sort of behavior is similar to "egg drop" that would be on a unix box - it allows a person remotely to trigger a Denial of Service attack from many machines remotely only by entering a key phrase into an IRC chatroom.
It can also trigger other things, such as the downloading to a specific email address of personal info from the machine, email address lists, or any other informaiton located on the system infected. It would also allow for the installation of additional software without the end user's knowledge, such as a key logger or password trapper.
This is a VERY powerful hack, not script kiddie stuff. Even reading the symantic website, you will see a certain amount of respect for the level of BS that went into making this sort of hack work.
It's pros... not amateurs - and it's dangerous.
Alex
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