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TROJ_DMSETUP.A
Overview

Malware type: Trojan

Aliases: Dmsetup.worm!irc (McAfee), HLLO/DMSetup.A (Avira), mIRC/Goaway (Sophos),

In the wild: No

Destructive: No

Language: English

Platform: Windows/DOS

Encrypted: No

Overall risk rating:


Description: 
This worm sends a copy of itself by infecting the mirc.ini file and other files in infected computers. It does this by changing mIRC remote scripts and thereby sending itself to users joining the same channel as the infected mIRC user. This is done with the IRC file transfer protocol DCC. This Trojan’s name is easily altered therefore the attachment with the malware may have several other names (filename.exe) besides DMSetup.exe.

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Technical Details

Description created: May. 16, 2000 3:32:42 PM GMT -0800

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