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mr. nails
03-31-2007, 11:15 PM
wtf is this? i get it all the time. i googled it and didn't find out the cause or wtf it is. ppl just talk about it and say they get it to. maybe i just didn't look hard enough. idk. any idea wtf this is? i get in on vista and xp.

http://img135.imageshack.us/img135/5818/wormeg7.th.jpg (http://img135.imageshack.us/my.php?image=wormeg7.jpg)

RTFM
04-01-2007, 02:47 AM
Either the Helkern Worm is actually trying to infect your computer (first released in 2003, so I doubt it), or Kaspersky is detecting false positives, possibly because of its heuristic techniques.

dodgy368
04-02-2007, 01:12 PM
Pretty thorough description here.
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/mssqlm.shtml