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China warns of a new virus
A PARTICULARLY NASTY computer virus has been discovered in China and the government there is warning that it could spread fast.
Although details of the Worm_Piloyd.B are fairly sketchy at the moment, it is unusual to get a virus warning from China before the rest of the world has caught it.
Surprisingly there have been no traditional messages of doom from the computer insecurity companies in Europe and the US, which normally are quick to play up the four horsemen of the apocalypse scenario about malware.
The virus infects exe, html and asp files and if the user tries to restore the files they are blocked from doing so. Notification has come from the Tianjin-based National Computer Virus Emergency Response Centre.
Worm_Piloyd.B forces the system to download other viruses from websites and is probably a recruiting tool for a botnet.
Experts suggested that computer users should update their antivirus software and use the real-time computer virus monitoring function whenever they surf the world wide web, Xinhua news agency reported. µ
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Since the article does not specify which OS(s) is targeted I will assume it is Windows.
Just another reason I run Linux.
Haha. Yawn.
...It infects Windows boxes.
There isn't much detail on how it works. Just vague comments about adding Dynamic Link Libraries and watching for changes in the Registry.
...Nothing to do with Linux, BSD, Solaris, etc users.
Title should be changed: "China warns of a new virus for Windows"
Hey,Regulas.
Are you working for the chinky Sinux OS boys?
Buy a half decent OS...like W7,that way you just boot up & use your PC,rather than sit around scratching your head(wherever that may be).
I just got hit with this. On 11/23 east coast usa. Usally I can backtrack my usage and figure out where it came from, not this time. Be Carefull !
I use Linux. I advise all my friends and co workers to do the same. If they feel that they are secure using windows, let them suffer the consequences.
New virus? Keep them coming I say !!!
I bet the Chinese gov probably created the damn virus! LOL
I seriously doubt the Chinese created this one thelmores, if they did they wouldn't have warned the rest of the world about it since they would naturally want it to have as great an effect as possible were that the case. It just wouldn't make sense to rat on a virus you created unless you wanted to bolster your reputation, and in China's case that would accomplish very little in the long term as doing so ultimately addresses none of the issues that contribute to the ill feelings towards the Chinese government.
Suggesting Windows 7 as an alternative is just plain dumb.
Have you not heard of the recent bug with SMB? (The protocol used by Windows file/print sharing)...One can now crash your system and deny you of any Windows 7 love until the next reboot.
The only way to fix Windows is to dump the current crap, and write it from scratch. Focus should be one simplicity and security of the code...This isn't going to happen because it would cost MS tremendous time and money.