Bizarre Virus Threatens to Kill File-Sharers

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A strange virus which taunts file-sharers and threatens to report them to the police and even kill them, is being distributed on the Winny network.

winny virus killsThe virus has two variants Troj/Pirlames-A and Troj/Pirlames-B, masquerades as a screensaver and attacks files with these popular extensions - EXE, BAT, CMD, INI, ASP, HTM, HTML, PHP, CLASS, JAVA, DBX, EML, MBX, TBB, WAB, HLP, TXT, MP3, XLS, LOG, BMP - overwriting them with images of comic book character Ayu Tsukimiya.

Its reported that one of the images, which includes a song about fish-shaped pancakes stuffed with jam, has a telephone number included although its unclear to whom the number belongs.

Another exclaims This is a visit from the prevalent Piro virus! Stop P2P! If you dont ill tell the police! while another threatens Ah, I see you are using P2P againif you dont stop within 0.5 seconds, im going to kill you!

Graham Cluley, a consultant for Sophos said of the virus This is one of the most bizarre pieces of malware we have seen in our labs for quite some time, but its data-destroying payload is no laughing matter. It acts as a timely reminder to companies that they may want to control users access to P2P file-sharing software not just because they can eat up bandwidth, but also because they can present a security risk to your corporate data.

Winny is the most popular P2P application in Japan. In 2006 the developer of the Winny file-sharing software was found guilty and fined 1.5 million yen for assisting users in copyright violations.

 
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