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Star Wars worm infects gamers downloading off warez sites
Virus writers have developed a worm that spoofs the behaviour of internet search engine Google, varying the results displayed to suit the requirements of hackers. the search engine's address - even if they make a mistake, such as "www.gogle.com". The program links to profitable websites and supports all 17 languages of Google, which is pretty advanced if you ask me! You might not want to download any games off of Shareaza and Imesh!
The worm spreads across file trading networks, targeting users of the Shareaza and Imesh P2P programs. P2Load-A copies itself to the shared directory of these programs as an executable file called Knights of the Old Republic 2, a reference to a well-known computer game related to the Star Wars saga. If this file is run, it displays an error message informing the user that a file does not exist and offering to download it. Meanwhile, unknown to its user, their Windows PC will have become infected.
Posted by | Mon, Sep 19, 2005 - 09:28 PM
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