16
May
stored in: Computer Viruses, Virus Threats
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Thankfully it’s low risk but a new virus threat has been detected and you can never be too careful!
“W32/Areses.k@MM is a mass mailer that spreads via e-mail by harvesting e-mail addresses from the infected machine. It also spreads via P2P file sharing networks. Upon execution, the worm copies itself by name “csrss.exe” in %WINDIR% folder.
The virus attempts to verify internet connectivity by downloading a file before replicating. “
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* Source McAfee.