The worm, so designated because it can replicate on its own, arrives as an e-mail or newsgroup attachment and infects only users who run the attachment. Once they do, all victims see is a window with a fireworks display. But behind the scenes, the worm alters the host computer's winsock32.dll file, the computer's doorway to the Internet. Any type of activity on port 25 or 119 will trigger spam activity, according to Takata, senior software support engineer of Data Fellows. Data Fellows has a patch that recognizes the worm.
Infected users can click here for full instructions on how to remove the worm from their systems.
It poses no risk to data, but can be more than a nuisance to network administrators. It can crash your e-mail server. I wouldn't be surprised if it did. Diskeeper Get Max System Performance.