A worm for MySQL?

Slashdot has an article on what seems to be a worm propagating using MySQL on Windows that is configured with a weak root password. More information can be found here.


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I wonder how many web servers will get severe problems because of the many attacks on port 3306...

Update: I suspect the worm is written by some dutch person (or belgian) because it connects to an IRC server and goes to a channel named "#rampenstampen" which is typically dutch.