Intraday malicious virus program: Worm.Win32.Agent.awx
Behaviour:
This is a malicious Worm virus program.
The virus program spreads via Flash Disk, LAN (Local Area Network), DLL (Dynamic Link Library), and infecting files of compressed format, and other measures. And after being executed, the virus program shall shut down antivirus software of infected computers, and then customize virus download link and malicious functions via the creator program attached.
Statistics:
RISING Cloud Security reported:
November 18, 2009 there were 202,125 devices got malicious attack via malicious Webpage Horse Hanging tech, and RISING Virus Lab has intercepted 126,849 malicious hyperlinks with webpage Horse Hanging tech. And Rising Cloud Security got 10,240 reports from end users.
Top5 Infected Website:
1, www.china-b.com/kaoyan/kygs/20090625/1891450_1.html
with malicious hyperlink: ***.cn/index.html, etc.
2, kyc.sisu.edu.cn/index.htm
with malicious hyperlink: ***.cn/Edit/Example/NewsSystem/NewsFile/btbk.htm, etc.
3, lz.putuo.gov.cn
with malicious hyperlink: ***.com/mpeg2.htm, etc.
4, wh.huainan.gov.cn/news/09-4-2.html
with malicious hyperlink: ***.cn/root/index.php, etc.
5, xdxq.cdu.edu.cn/News/showNews.aspx?id=253
with malicious hyperlink: ***.cn/flash/top.htm, etc.
Notice: the symbol ‘*’ means a stochastic letter or number.
Solutions:
1. Install Rising Internet Security or Rising Anti-virus, personal firewall, update in time, and at least 3 times per day for updating Rising.
2. Install Rising PC Doctor, and choose “Leaks” function to check the leaks or vulnerabilities exist in your computer operation system, patch your computer system in a timely manner as many viruses spread by taking advantage of the system exploits or vulnerabilities.
3. Do not browse suspicious websites, and suspicious inserter; turn off or delete unnecessary system services.
4. Do not receive the suspicious file from QQ, MSN, Email, etc.
5. Open RISING Active Defense and Auto-Protect function when accessing to the internet.
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