Beware of the "Happy New Year" worms

New year is coming soon, but do your computer have the best protection yet? Beware and stay alert, don't open all your email that contains "Happy New Year" message from the person that you don't recognize. VeriSign iDefense Labs revealed that "The Happy New Year" worm is being heavily spammed at a rate of five e-mails per second on at least one large network. This worm is similar to other attacks however in this case, it contains a file attachment called "postcard.exe" that users must download in order to infect the user's computer. According to Ken Dunham, Director of VeriSign iDefence Intelligence Operations "If [the attachment is] executed, malicious code variants from Tibs, Nuwar, Banwarum, and Glowa variants are installed on the computer. It then performs a mass mailing from an infected computer" How does this worm work? The "Happy New Year" worms will install two rootkit files as soon as the user download the "postcard.exe" file. Rootkit is a hacker that capture passwords and message traffic to and from the computer. It can also give hacker a backdoor to your system or your network. The worm then hide themselves in the system using this tools and spreads by spamming itself to addresses it steals from the user's files. This worm also disable your Windows firewall and other security system. There's been no cure to this attack, the only things you can do is keep alert of Happy New Year message from an unknown sender. DON'T OPEN IT, I REPEAT DON'T OPEN IT, or you will get infected by this worms. If you do as what i said, you will enjoy your holiday without worried about this worms. Have a happy holiday guys. Link:Happy New Year Worms