Virus faker Shortcut

Once the action type of trojan computer virus Stuxnet, who attacked Iran's nuclear installations, a new shortcut appears worm, whose full name Win32.HLLW.Autoruner.25xxx or W32/VBNA.Dx.This worm can steal the attention of most computer users in Indonesia via its spread is incredible.Adi Saputra, security experts from Vaksin.com said, it got dozens of samples of different shortcut from the worm. "This incident is similar to the worm YM (conime / secupdat) and viruses are also spread rapidly Sality with different variants," said Adi, on his statement, October 13, 2010.
"With the same technique, variants of malware spreads by exploiting Windows vulnerabilities are MS10-046 (security holes .lnk / shortcut)," he said.Although computer users have antivirus update, said Adi, still capable of attacking the worm."Just as the worm YM (conime / secupdat) and Stuxnet, early methods of distributing this worm comes in links of websites that contain trojans and spam links in the e-mail," said Adi. "But after a user's computer is infected, the worm began to spread using removable media drives / disks," he said.In addition, Adi mentions, in his network will take advantage of file sharing (full) and mapping drives to make some virus files and shortcuts."With the rampant spread of malware with variants of different, sometimes difficult for the antivirus to detect variants of the same, so it takes a sample of the virus," said Adi. "But there are also some anti-virus that has special technology to address the malware without the need for samples," he said.Antivirus like this, said Adi, can easily detect and add yourself as a database owned viruses without requiring an update.

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