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Pandas Are Lovely! Too Bad They're Infected!

New malware infects EXE and HTML files

By Bogdan Popa, Security and Search Engines Editor

18th of January 2007, 14:21 GMT

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Malware files are more and more popular because they represent a different kind of infections that can make your computer vulnerable to attacks or damage your system files. Most antivirus solutions are currently offering powerful features to detect, block or remove malware files but some of the malicious infections are still hard to identify. Some of the companies that are fighting against malware infections developed applications meant to detect these threats but sometimes, this is not enough
to protect your computer.

The latest threat that was identified on the internet is a malware file that is distributed under a panda icon and it can infect all web based files and executables. The infection can spread through network shares, so it can be downloaded very easy. McAfee employees confirmed the danger and posted a message on the official blog to provide more information about the malware.

"Machines have been getting infected by a piece of malware called W32/Fujacks. The virus files have an icon of a panda holding incense sticks. We have seen several variants of Fujacks since Nov 2006. Early variants of Fujacks were a worm that spread through network shares with weak passwords and infected executables. Several of the variants can infect web based files like .html, .asp, .php, etc. The infected html files are detected as W32/Fujacks!htm. The html files are infected by appending an iframe tag. When these html file are opened through a browser, they will download another variant of this virus. Recently, we have also seen variants that infect both executables and the html files," it is mentioned in the blog post.

In the description of the W32/Fujacks!htm virus it is said that it can infect htm, html, asp, php, jsp and aspx formats and the symptoms are represented by some occasionally restarts of the computer. McAfee also sustained that users must not download unknown files via P2P clients, IRC, email or other sharing clients.
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