| What's been found | Severity Level |
| Threat characteristics of the Storm worm (aka CME-711/Peacomm/Nuwar/Zhelatin/Tibs). This threat is normally received as an email attachment; it may consist of a rootkit, a peer-to-peer client, and a mass-mailing worm component. To bypass firewalls, its code may be injected and run from the legitimate services.exe process. |  |
| Capability to send out email message(s) with the built-in SMTP client engine. |  |
| Searching for email addresses by enumerating files with the certain extensions. This functionality is used by mass-mailers and spam-bots. |  |
| Backdoor functionality: connected remote users are able to perform multiple actions on the compromised system. |  |
| Stealth-mode characteristics common to Rootkits. |  |
| Contains characteristics of an identified security risk. |  |
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