Two new viruses worth mentioning today - one a mass-mailer spreading, one an interesting conceptual specimen.
Bagle-Based “Lodear“ Appears
A new worm family, Lodear, has appeared. The first variant seems to be spreading some in the wild. Information can be found here. Some antivirus companies consider this a variant of Bagle itself, and the family may be merged with the Bagle name. Lodear is similar to past Bagle variants. The primaray symptom of infection is a file called hloader_exe.exe in the Sytem folder.
First KiXTart Virus Appears
A virus infecting .KIX (KiXTart Script File) files has appeared. This is unlikely to effect most people, but it is the first example of such a virus. Information is here. KiXTart is a batch processing script that runs at logon on some Windows computers. For more information on KiXTart, see here.
Posted
Nov 01 2005, 05:59 PM
by
trafton