and call the victim names

Feb 1, 2005 20:09 GMT  ·  By

It's not enough hassle you just got hit by a worm or virus and that all your friends "thank" you for receiving it too, but the little pest also has to insult you and make you feel like you're the bottom of the food chain (having a worm call you names puts you in that spot).

This wise-guy is called Cisum.A and was spotted first by PandaLabs. After you receive it, it displays the message "YOU ARE AN IDIOT," and it plays an MP3 file that repeats the same thing every 5 seconds.

The worm spreads across computer networks and once a file carrying the worm is launched, the worm copies itself as ProjectX.exe to the root directory of the shared drives in your computer. The worm is clever enough to mess with whatever anti-virus or firewall you might have installed and prevent those from working properly so as to have the PC vulnerable for another attack. Cisum.A also creates duplicate entries in Windows Registry to make sure it will run everytime you reboot.

But after all the harm it's done, Cisum.A will actually scan your PC and remove whatever bagle or Netsky variants will find. Anti-software producers recommend users to be careful what they download and update their security software.

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