Virus, Worms & Trojans of the Week

Here's the latest malware that has been trying to invade our computers. Just a friendly reminder, keep your anti-virus and anti-spyware updated!

W32.Imautorun
Wed, Jul 25 2007
Severity: 1
Infects: Windows 2000,Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows Me,Windows NT,Windows Server 2003,Windows XP

https://usp.hdaar.com/vlink/vwt_info.jsp?id=2792

W32.Bratsters
Wed, Jul 25 2007
Severity: 1
Infects: Windows 2000,Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows Me,Windows NT,Windows Server 2003,Windows XP

https://usp.hdaar.com/vlink/vwt_info.jsp?id=2791

Trojan.Firpage
Mon, Jul 23 2007
Severity: 1
Infects: Windows 2000,Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows Me,Windows NT,Windows Server 2003,Windows XP

https://usp.hdaar.com/vlink/vwt_info.jsp?id=2790

W32.Mubla.B
Sun, Jul 22 2007
Severity: 1
Infects: Windows 2000,Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows Me,Windows NT,Windows Server 2003,Windows XP

https://usp.hdaar.com/vlink/vwt_info.jsp?id=2789

W32.Phoney.A
Fri, Jul 20 2007
Severity: 1
Infects: Windows 2000,Windows 95,Windows 98,Windows Me,Windows NT,Windows Server 2003,Windows XP

https://usp.hdaar.com/vlink/vwt_info.jsp?id=2788

Source: Certstation

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Congatulations Virus, You Just Turned 25 Years Old!

Sometime in July 1982, a 15 year old high school student has created the first virus called Elk Cloner and guess what computer it infected? The Apple II computer!

Its funny how all the havoc being wreaked by the computer virus (and trojans, worms and other malware) started with Apple computers but the current Apple computers rarely gets infected anymore.

source: The Register

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Virus Alert: Harry Potter Fans Beware!

Sophos has warned Harry Potter fans not to open an e-mail which claims to contain the final installment of the boy wizard book series. Security companies have intercepted an e-mail promising a copy of 'Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows'. The book is not due for release until July 21. But rather than getting a sneak preview of the book, impatient people who click on the file will instead find their PC infected by the W32/Hairy-A worm. The worm copies itself to any USB drives it finds attached to the system. After infecting Windows computers, the worm creates a number of new users, namelyHarry Potter, Hermione Granger and Ron Weasley.

(source: Certstation TMA)

technorati tags:virus, malware, harry potter, hairy_a

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