Due to a decreased number of submissions, Symantec Security Response is downgrading W32.Goner.A@mm from a threat rating of Category 3 to Category 2. W32.Goner.A@mm is a mass-mailing worm that is written in Visual Basic. The worm has been compressed using a Portable Executable (PE) file compressor.

The W32/Goner worm began circulating on December 4th.