IRC Users - beware.

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Fledgling Freddie
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What is it?

A fast-spreading Internet Relay Chat (IRC) bot worm affecting systems worldwide, W32/IRCbot.worm!MS05-039 exploits a recently announced Microsoft operating system vulnerability to spread and possibly help a remote hacker control an infected system.

You can be infected simply by going online. Once infected, your system may continually reboot.

How do I know if I've been infected?

The virus copies itself to the Windows System directory (e.g. C:\Windows\System32\ on Windows XP) as WINTBP.EXE.

The file can be run automatically by exploiting the MS05-039 vulnerability or by a user directly executing the worm.


I've not known McAfee virus alerts to be wrong and they have labelled it as high risk, something i'm not seen for a while.
 

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