"Illegal Microsoft License detected"? What the hell?

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ThePerfectCore said:

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ThePerfectCore said:

My question is, what the hell was it supposed to accomplish, outside of eating someone's data?

And it's not like the author would be around to see it, so they could "omg lol!!!! look wut i did!111!! lol i rox!!!".

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Mr. $T$ said:

Just for the fun of F-ing up some one else's computer.

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2. The worm then runs C:\Boot.exe to reboot the system, at which time the payload runs. It overwrites the boot section of the hard drive, deletes the CMOS, and destroys all data on the hard drive. It then displays this message:
NOTICE:

Illegal Microsoft Windows license detected!
You are in violation of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act!

Your unauthorized license has been revoked.

For more information, please call us at:

1-888-NOPIRACY

If you are outside the USA, please look up the correct contact information
on our website, at:

www.bsa.org

Business Software Alliance
Promoting a safe & legal online world.

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If not all conditions for the payload were met, the worm performs the following actions:

If the original file name of the worm is not %windir%\Mqbkup.exe, it copies itself as %windir%\Mqbkup.exe and then deletes itself from the original location. It then updates the registry and quits. This ensures that the worm runs at the next system startup as %windir%\Mqbkup.exe.

NOTE: %windir% is a variable. The worm locates the Windows main installation folder (by default, this is C:\Windows or C:\Winnt) and uses it as a destination folder.

The worm creates the "mqbkup61616" mutex. This mutex allows only one instance of the W32.Opaserv.K.Worm to execute in memory.
The worm creates the value

mqbkup %windir%\mqbkup.exe

or

mqbkupdbs %windir%\mqbkup.exe

in the registry key

HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run

so that the worm starts when you restart Windows.
If the operating system is Windows 95/98/Me, the worm registers itself as a service process to continue to run after you log off.
Then the worm takes an inventory of the network, looking for "C:\" shares. For each share it finds, it attempts to perform these actions:
It copies itself to C:\Windows\Mqbkup.exe.
It adds the following line to the Win.ini file on the infected network computer:

run=c:\windows\mqbkup.exe

To replicate across the network, the worm uses a security vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 95/98/Me. It sends single-character passwords to network shares to obtain access to Windows 95/98/Me file shares without knowing the entire passwords assigned to the shares. The affected operating systems include:
Microsoft Windows 95
Microsoft Windows 98
Microsoft Windows 98 Second Edition
Microsoft Windows Me

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