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W32/Mimail.u@MM

Feb 12, 2004 11:38PM PST

Virus Information
Discovery Date: 02/13/2004
Origin: Unknown
Length: 12,080 Bytes
Type: Virus
SubType: E-mail

This mass-mailing email worm was spammed to many email recipients during the initial seeding.

The spammed message is as follows:

Subject: Your account delete

Your account is deleted.
Details see in file.

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The worm checks to see whether there is a valid Internet connection by attempting to connect to the following domains:

google.com
yahoo.com
demos.ru
kernel.org
navy.mil
It attempts to connect to several IRC servers and waiting for further commands.

More: http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_101021.htm

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