New Virus is a Dud, says Microsoft
Sunday, January 18th, 2009
F-Secure Security
“The gang behind this worm haven’t used it yet,” F-Secure’s chief research officer, Nikko Hypponen said by phone. “But they could do anything they like with any of these machines at any time.”
Saw this a few times around the internet, so thought You should be aware, just in case.
Microsoft issued a security update Tuesday to deal with them, which appears to be a new version of a bug that popped up in October.
A company representative couldn’t immediately be reached Saturday to comment on F-Secure’s estimate of infected machines.
Most computers with Windows will automatically download Microsoft’s security update, but Hypponen said the virus disables updates on infected machines.
While the origin of the virus is a mystery, F-Secure’s best guess is it came from Ukraine. Hypponen said it is coded to avoid computers there, which may indicate whoever wrote the virus was trying to avoid drawing attention from local authorities.
Removal information HERE.
