Day the music died: Mp3-killing threats hit the computer world
Ciaran Moore - August 31, 2007
In case you haven’t heard, there’s a new internet security threat in the last few weeks that is sure to strike fear into any music fan.
An mp3-eating worm/virus has been unleashed recently. It copies itself to all drives on the infected computer and searches for mp3 files which it then proceeds to delete. In fact it’s main aim is to delete all mp3 files from all drives on the compromised computer!
It’s name is W32.Deletemusic. Thankfully, so far, it’s been given a low risk factor by the major antivirus companies, but apparently it’s not the first threat of this kind. Are more such threats on the way? Now you have an even better reason (as if you didn’t already) to make sure you have up to date antivirus protection.
Read the full story from Yahoo here and the Symantec page for it here
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November 15th, 2007 at 1:54 am
Absolutely agree with you.