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W32.HLLW.Cult.M@mm

Feb 17, 2004 1:21AM PST

Discovered on: February 15, 2004
Last Updated on: February 17, 2004 12:06:21 PM

W32.HLLW.Cult.M@mm is a mass-mailing worm that uses its own SMTP engine to send itself to randomly generated email addresses. The worm also has IRC Trojan functionality that allows the Trojan's creator to control the infected computer by using Internet Relay Chat (IRC).

The email message has the following characteristics:

Subject: Hello , I sent you a beautiful Love Card ^_*
Attachment: LoveCard.pif

This threat is compressed with ASPack.




Type: Worm

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hllw.cult.m@mm.html

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