Goner virus is a mass-mailer written in Visual Basic. It was found on December 4th, 2001. The worm spreads itself using Outlook e-mail messages as GONE.SCR attachment. It also spreads through ICQ Instant Messanger if it's installed on an infected computer. It also drops a few scripts to MIRC client directory. These scripts can be used to flood certain IRC chat channels. Goner also tries to delete security programs, such as firewalls and anti-virus programs from the system. Although this sounds serious, it doesn't actually help the spreading of the virus much: the virus can only delete security programs if it is able to execute itself; thus the security program was not able to stop Goner anyway, and deleting such programs doesn't help the virus. This technique does make the system more vuln