New Virus On The Loose!!!

[Chris Blount]

I don't know if this has been posted yet but here ya go.

There is a new virus that has been discovered today named, W32.Erkez.D@mm, it has a high distribution and will be accompanied by one of the following subject lines in your email:

· Merry Christmas!

· boldog karacsony...

· Feliz Navidad!

· ecard.ru

· Christmas Kort!

· Christmas Vykort!

· Christmas Postkort!

· Christmas postikorti!

· Christmas - Kartki!

· Weihnachten card.

· Prettige Kerstdagen!

· Christmas pohlednice

· Joyeux Noel!

· Buon Natale!

This virus is capable of spreading itself through harvested email addresses from your PC and will mail itself and the infected payload to any address it can find. The email has a very cute picture with smiley faces (emoticons) embedded in it.

DO NOT CLICK ON THE PROVIDED LINK IN THIS EMAIL!

There are no definitions available currently at Symantec for this virus and it is capable of turning off your antivirus, disabling your firewall and it opens a backdoor to download additional hacker tools.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter