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Vesser (worm)

by Marianna Schmudlach Feb 7, 2004 5:01AM PST

ALIAS: W32.HLLW.Deadhat

Summary

Vesser is a network worm that was found on February 7th, 2004. This worm spreads through the backdoor of Mydoom.A and Mydoom.B as well as through a Peer-to-Peer application called SoulSeek.

It also contains an IRC-based backdoor and an HTTP proxy.

The worm terminates several security application and also removes the Mydoom backdoor.

http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/vesser.shtml

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