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W32/Cissi-C

Mar 10, 2004 12:21AM PST

Aliases
Worm.Win32.Pinom.gen, W32/Pinom.worm!backdoor, W32.IRCBot.Gen, WORM_PINOM.C

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/Cissi-C is a worm which attempts to spread by emailing itself via SMTP and by copying itself to network shares with weak passwords. The worm allows unauthorised remote access to the computer via IRC channels.
The worm copies itself to the Windows system folder as *****.EXE and changes the [boot] field within SYSTEM.INI (or WIN.INI) to run itself on system restart.


More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32cissic.html

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