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new strange worm




http://www.mikenoels.net/matrix.swf/index1.html (do _not_ open.)

Found a new sort of worm, at least I didn't find any information about this on 
any securitysite;

Creates a registry entry \HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Search 
Assistant\ACMru\5603 and adds a file called "umcss.exe" to 
C:\windows(winnt)\system32. The exececutable spawns a connection to a 
irc-server called apollo.uplinkearth.com at port 6667. I'm asuming it's sitting 
in a channel there to create a DoS at a specific date or to give the owner of 
that irc-server problems.

it also adds a line in mirc.ini telling it to load a script called custom1.mrc, 
which adds a "on join" to remote, sending several messages to channel visitors, 
including one with the URL above.

regards,
Alex Gen