Tuesday, October 5, 2010

Stuxnet Virus Attacks on Computer World

Stuxnet Virus is a computer virus had attacked sophisticated call Stuxnet to 30,000 Internet provider or Internet service provider that the goal is nuclear power industry in Iran. Winsta or stuxnet is the virus that causes popular disk space is full, any remaining capacity in the hard disk so that you can not save the file. Now, there is a type of virus carried in local Stuxnet also result in the hard disk is full, but with different methods.

To spend the rest of the disc, will file for viruses number in the hundreds of people in all folders that are determined. But fortunately this virus only attacks the master drive [C: \] alone.
For ease of dissemination, the virus uses the autorun feature of Windows to spread by exploiting the media and USB flash disks and networks (full access). In addition will also extend through peer-to-peer file sharing like Kazaa, Morpheus or any other program to create several files in the specified directory.

In an effort to transmit the virus WinRAR engineered virus that is automatically activated if the user running the program WinRAR or files that have been compressed with WinRAR. Cirri - character, use WinRAR icon, the file size of 60 KB and the file extension *. exe.

To complicate the process of elimination, block some Windows features, such as search, Folder Options and run. "It could also block security tools or when the user accesses a folder with a name that is determined by reading the text of the title or the name of the application. If the user opens it immediately closes.

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