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W32/Hiton.a@MM

Mar 2, 2004 7:10AM PST

Date Discovered: 3/2/2004
Date Added: 3/2/2004
Origin: Unknown
Length: 44,036 bytes (EXE)
44,036 bytes (DLL)
approx 44kB (ZIP)
Type: Virus
SubType: E-mail worm

Virus Characteristics

This email worm bears the following characteristics:

constructs messages using its own SMTP engine
harvests target email addresses from the victim machine
spoofs the From: addresses of sent messages
copies itself locally using various enticing filenames

More: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=101070

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