New Hot Virus on the Spread

Author: Sven Rafferty
Wednesday, December 15, 2004

Looks like e-mail and those beloved P2P software programs (people, stop using these!!) are the method of choice for this new virus named Win32.Zafi.d. Fancy name, aye? Anyways, it ain’t good, Dorthy, so be sure your DAT files are updated and if you don’t know what that is, turn off your computer now!

W32.Erkez.D@mm is a mass-mailing worm that sends itself to email addresses gathered from the infected computer. The worm may also attempt to lower security settings, terminate processes, and open a back door on the compromised computer. [Full Text]


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