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John Calvin
7/7/2002 (17:56) |
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India-Virus-Sircam /GNR/
Sircam virus spreading, topping the watch list of antivirus cos.
New Delhi, Sept 7, IRNA -- Almost seven weeks after it started
spreading, the Sircam worm is still topping the watch list of almost
every antivirus company, said an Indian daily on Friday.
According to the English-language daily Hindustan Times, published
from New Delhi, market analyst Computer Economics estimates that by
the end of August, Sircam had infected 2.3 million computers and
caused one billion dollar in damages related to cleaning infected
systems and to lost productivity.
Although antivirus companies have released updates so that their
scanning software can detect Sircam, the worm shows no sign of
abating.
Sircam worm also hit India's Ministry of External Affairs
computer system and the National Informatics Center's (NIC) is
taking all care through its website itsecurity.gov.
Sircam worm uses e-mail addresses stored in address books to
distribute itself. The virus identifies network shares, infects them
and e-mails the infected files as messages using its own SMTP engine,
and will append a file from the local system to disguise the user.
BH/HR
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