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W32/Hiton-A

Mar 4, 2004 8:48AM PST

Type
Win32 worm

Description
W32/Hiton-A is a mass mailing worm that emails itself, using its own SMTP engine, to addresses harvested from address books and files on the hard disk.
When first run W32/Hiton-A displays the fake error message:

"Connection Error 66473:

Please check you Internet Connection or
Firewall. If the Error occurs again you
should Contact your ISP"

The worm copies itself to the Windows system folder as SVCHOST.EXE and creates the following files in the same folder:

MSSVC.DLL - a component of the worm
WSUCK32.DLL - a list of filenames
WSICK32.DLL - a file containing sent email addresses


More: http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32hitona.html

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