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- #Check for worm virus update#
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Viruses need human input to become active. However, through large-scale replication, worms can seriously disrupt computer performance and cause damage to an entire network of machines. Their primary intent is not usually to manipulate data, software, or systems on your computer. Worms, often, have only one purposes: replicate and spread. Usually, once activated, a virus will corrupt or destroy data on your machine. Viruses are usually designed to inflict damage on a target computer. But there are a few key distinctions computer users should be aware of. If it sounds an awful lot like a virus, that’s because the two are similar. The defining aspect of a worm is that it can infect your computer, replicate itself, and go on to infect another computer, all without any input from you or a human attacker. If a specific text string is found in a process, the worm terminates this process.Pixabay What’s the Difference Between a Worm and a Virus? The worm opens processes and looks for the specific text strings there.
#Check for worm virus software#
The worm kills tasks of anti-virus and security software as well as tasks of several other worms - Nimda, Sircam, Funlove and CodeRed.So it can be for example QQ.PAS.EXE, , DOCUMENT.SCR and so on.
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When the infected file is run, the worm extracts the original program from a backup file with its original name plus 'MP8' and runs it. When infecting an EXE file, the worm overwrites it and creates a backup file with the same name as the infected file, but with a random extension with hidden, system and read-only attributes.
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#Check for worm virus update#
The update with detection for D variant was published on 12th of November 09:00GMT. Detection was added with the update shipped on 26th of October around 15 o'clock GMT.
#Check for worm virus Patch#
This vulnerability is fixed and a patch for it is available on Microsoft site: To do this the worm uses a known vulnerability in IE that allows execution of an email attachment. On some systems the worm is able to self-launch itself when an infected email is viewed (for example, with Outlook and IE 5.0 or 5.01).