Security company Sophos is warning users of a new computer virus that is cheating for victims of the earthquake - tsunami to spread on the Internet.
Named after VBSun-A, in an e-mail titled "Tsunami Donation! Please help! - Donate to the victims of the tsunami "and the message" Please help us with your donation and view the attachment below! We need you! - Please help us with your kindness, and see the attached file below! We need you! "
When the user clicks on the file tsunami.exe, this file will copy 3 files to the hard drive: crssr.exe, raz32.exe and tsunami.exe. It also modifies the Registry to ensure that it runs when the computer is started. The worm will collect all the addresses on the victim's computer and send itself to various addresses. Besides, it also tries to perform a denial of service attack on the page www.hacksector.de site of Germany.
"The use of goodwill to help victims of the tsunami to spread the virus indicates that the attackers have lost their conscience," said Graham Cluley, technology consultant at Sophos. So, people should watch out for non-originating e-mails, and go to trusted charity websites if you want to support the victims of the disaster, do not click on the links. available".
VBSun-A is the second virus to use the tsunami to spread on the network. Earlier this month, experts also discovered Geven-B worm.
In spite of these frauds, the US Federal Bureau of Investigation has recently announced that there are now a number of fraud groups that set up "ghost" sites to get relief money.
On the same day, security experts warned of the 35th appearance of the Mydoom virus. When infected with a computer, the worm crawls all the addresses on the computer to send itself to other users using the SMTP mechanism. This virus drops a trojan program into the victim's computer so that hackers can control it later.
