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This mass-mailing worm sends itself to all users found in
the Outlook Address Book using using a plain text format.
Therefore, the
attachment does not start automatically when the user opens
the message and does not get activated automatically when
then
Outlook preview pane if used.
Running this attachment infects the local system.
When run, the worm displays a message box entitled, "About"
After a short time another windows entitled "Error" is displayed:
The worm copies itself into SYSTEM in the %WinDir% folder
and adds the following registry key in order to get started
upon boot :
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\
Run\C:\%WINDIR%\SYSTEM\gone.scr=C:\%WINDIR%\SYSTEM\gone.scr
Under Windows 9x/ME, the worm looks for the following processes
in memory:
APLICA32.EXE
ZONEALARM.EXE
ESAFE.EXE
CFIADMIN.EXE
CFIAUDIT.EXE
CFINET32.EXE
PCFWallICON.EXE
FRW.EXE
VSHWIN32.EXE
NAVW32.EXE
_AVP32.EXE
_AVPCC.EXE
_AVPM.EXE
AVP32.EXE
AVPCC.EXE
AVPM.EXE
AVP.EXE
LOCKDOWN2000.EXE
ICLOAD95.EXE
ICMON.EXE
ICSUPP95.EXE
ICLOADNT.EXE
ICSUPPNT.EXE
TDS2-98.EXE
TDS2-NT.EXE
SAFEWEB.EXE
If present, the process is terminated and all files in the directory
containing that executable are deleted, as well as all files
in that subdirectory. If this action fails, the worm may create
a WININIT.INI file to delete the files upon restart. |