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Macromedia Flash Virus
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Posted by: Tweaker
97 Percent of online users have it. Its Macromedia Flash and until now, it was safe. Everyone loves animated flash movies but as luck would have it, virus writers love it too. Sophos, the anti-virus vender who discovered the virus, named it LFM-926 and has declared the virus "relatively harmless". Not harmless however is the concept of being able to package malicious code into a flash movie.
Bruce Hughes, a virus analyst for TruSecure Corporation stated "This could be big. It's a new place for virus writers to put their malicious code and reach a lot of people" Yet another reason to update your anti-virus definitions daily.
The first virus that infects files in the popular Macromedia Flash format has been discovered, raising concerns that malicious code writers will gain a new method for infecting Internet users. Anti-virus software vendor Sophos said it received a copy of the virus, which it has named SWF/LFM-926, in a Flash "movie" file attached to an e-mail from an anonymous sender. According to Sophos's Graham Cluley, the virus appears to be a "proof of concept" and contains a "relatively harmless" payload. LFM-926 is designed simply to infect other Flash files, which have a .SWF extension, in the current directory on computers running Microsoft's Windows operating system.
The virus does not yet appear to be in the wild or spreading rapidly, but its appearance raises the specter that the popular file format could become a new transmission vector for viruses.
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Source: Newsbytes
Posted by: SKYHN
Crap...
Posted by: Chako
Enough is enough.
I say the next sick virus creator caught should be made an example to discourage the rest of them from doing the same thing.
Lets..see...being forced to watch Welcome Back Cotter reruns 24/7 for a month should do it.
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