Minggu, 06 Juli 2008

Feb Virus Warning! - Feb Virus Warning!!!

There were a couple of Virus warnings released by Major Anti Virus manufacturers regarding the outbreak of Two (or are they the same??) worms.
One is the Black Worm and other is the 'Kama Sutra' virus.......

It has been observed that the Black Worm also known as W32.Vb.i or W32.Nayem.E has been actively spreading in India since last two weeks now. It’s a mass-mailing worm that also spread using remote shares. After a long gap there has been an outbreak kind of situation as this worm was successful in spreading all over the globe within few hours when it first appeared over the Internet. The reason why the worm was so successful in spreading all over is just because it spreads by creating a mime encoded compressed executable with a different extension (.HQX, .BHX), which didn’t had any kind of header to classify the file. As a result the mail gateway scanners were not able to decode the attachment and scan the infected files. This is why the worm got skipped even though the mail severs have updated anti-virus scan engines. Many of the leading AntiVirus software’s had to do some changes to their scan engine to make the scanners decode the file and scan for the infected attachment

This worm has a dangerous payload, it will delete all the documents, worksheets, presentations, database files and compressed backup files from the system on every 3rd day of the month. This is very serious payload considering that the worm has spread all over India and the first payload day of 3rd February is arriving very soon. We recommend all our users to have their AntiVirus updated, up and running

Source: http://www.efytimes.com/fullnews.asp?edid=9930&magid=14

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