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Avian Flu Used to Spread Virus The Naiva.A virus	By Tudor Raiciu, Technology and Science Editor 2nd of November 2005, 14:40 GMT Adjust text size:


Every calamity, every natural disaster and every tragic event that was massively presented by the media had over the last few years a more peculiar side-effect - the online virus and worm spread related to that particular event. The objective of such connections between human tragedies and security exploits has nothing to do with good and honest causes. Hackers only try to make the best (obviously for them only) of an already disastrous situation. The bird flu crisis hasn't reached disastrous proportions, but the threat of a pandemic infection has the world fearing the worst. This is the "security breach" hackers exploited this time; human fear proved to be effective enough to have naive users open e-mails containing a virus just because the subject of that message promised more information on the bird flu situation. According to Panda Software security company, the virus Naiva.A (is that a good name, or what?) masquerades as a word document with e-mail subject lines such as "Outbreak in North America" and "What is avian influenza (bird flu)?". When the file is opened, the virus modifies, creates and deletes files. A second part of the virus installs a program that allows hackers to gain remote control of infected computers. The virus doesn't include a self replicating system and can only infect other computers if sent manually either by e-mail, file transfer or download.

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