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mIRC/Minworm-A

Aliases
  • IRC-Worm.Win32.Small.g
Category
Type
What to do
Prevalence low high

Summary

 
How it spreads
  • Chat programs
Affected operating systems Windows
Protection available since 2 July 2005 15:20:04 (GMT)
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Action

More Information

mIRC/Minworm-A is a mIRC worm.

mIRC/Minworm-A sends messages to other IRC users requesting that they copy and paste an attached command. If the remote IRC user is using mIRC and performs this operation, they will become infected with the worm.

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