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Latest Threats Virus Sends Christmas Card Inter Engineering and F-Secure warn the users around the world about a new email worm that passes itself on as fake Christmas Card. Virus writers are honouring this Christmas with a new virus known as Zafi.D. The email worm spreads in emails that are written in several different languages based on the recipient. The Christmas greeting could be written in English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Swedish and several other languages. The message is a simple Christmas wish. The following text is an example of English message: Sender: Pamela M. Subject: Merry Christmas! Happy Hollydays! The infected attachment has an extension of .pif, .cmd, .bat, or .com file. When run, the virus displays a decoy error message saying “Error in packed file!”. After this the virus spreads further and installs a backdoor that will allow the virus writer to take over the infected computer. The worm sends messages in the respective languages to the following country codes: .hu .sp .ru .dk .ro .se .no .fi .lt .pl .pt .de .nl .cz .fr .it .mx .at .es “It's not the first time we see Christmas viruses trying to infect using the mood of the people these days” says Mr. Swinkels of Inter Engineering. “A printed card is better than an electronic one and can be used on a shelf in our houses. We suggest that people uses the traditional Christmas cards and not the electronic ones”. To contact us: Inter Engineering |