Valentine's Day virus alert

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Called Nurech.A by Panda, it is a mass mailing worm.

This worm reaches computers by email, in a message with variable subjects such as Together You and I, Everyone Needs Someone or Cyber Love. The sender field also varies, although it always contains a woman's name. The file that contains the worm is an executable file with names such as flash postcard.exe or greeting postcard.exe, very similar to when Christmas and New Year virus earlier on this year and last year.

When users run the attached file, Nurech.A installs on the computer. The worm is designed to terminate processes belonging to security tools and to look for addresses to spread to on the affected computer. This worm is particularly dangerous bearing in mind its rootkit features, aimed at hiding processes and making detection more difficult for security tools.

This virus is given an orange rating by Panda, just one step before reaching red alert status.
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This is not a time to talk about trust. I don't know how to help if your other half send you a virus.

The best would be to spend time together somewhere... (ahem, no pre-marital stuff) Laughing

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Technical details

It will end processes that starts with the following strings:

anti
avg
avp
blackice
firewall
f-pro
hijack
lockdown
mcafee
msconfig
nav
nod32
rav
reged
spybot
taskmgr
troja
viru
vsmon
zonea

You won't find anything suspicious in Task Manager because it uses a rootkit to hide itself.

You might find WINCOMS32.SYS lurking somewhere on your computer. If you find this file somewhere, chances are you have this infection.

Subject of the email message

1234567890

5 Reasons I Love You.

A

A Bouquet of Love, A Day in Bed Coupon Feeling Horny?, A Kiss So Gentle, A Little (sex) Card A Kiss for You, A Monkey Rose for You, A Red Hot Kiss, A Relaxing Coupon, A Romantic Place, A Song to You, A Special Kiss, A Sweet Love, Against All Odds, All For You For Better of For Worse To New Spouse, All That Matters, Awaiting Your Love.

B

Baby, Back Together, Between Us, Brand New Love, Breakfast in Bed Coupon Romantic Picnic Coupon, Bubble Bath Coupon.

C

Cuddle Up, Cyber Love.

D

Dancing, Dinner Coupon, Dream Date Coupon.

E

Emptiness Inside Me Our Love Everyday, Eternity of Your Love, Evening Romance Doing It for You, Every Inch of Your Body Ourlove is torn by miles, Everyone Needs Someone.

F

Falling In Love with You, Fields Of Love, For You Wish Upon a Star, For You....My Love, Forever in Love Full Heart.

H

Hand in Hand, He Blessed Our Lives, Heart is Breaking, Hold Me (distant love), Hold On You and I, How Much I Love You A, Hug & Roses, Hugging My Pillow, Hugs & Roses.

I

I Always Knew, I am Complete, I Am Lost In You, I Believe, I Can't Function, I Dream of you Dream Girl, I Give to You, I'll Be There Rose for my Love, I look at you You are out of this world, I Love Thee I'll Be Your Man, I Love You Mower, I Love You So, I Love You Soo Much Wrapped in Your Arms, I Love You with All I Am, I Luv U Crazy way to say I Luv U, I Still Love You, I Think of You, I Win with You, I wish Together Again You're so Far Away, I Woof You, I Would Do Anything You + Me, I Would Give you Anything, If I Could, If I Knew, In Love Love You Deeply The Long Haul, In My Heart From this day forward, Inside, Internet Love, It's Your Move.

J

Just You, Just You & Me.

K

Kisses.

L

Last Night was Hot! When, Let's Get Frisky, Love Birds, Love for Granted, Love is in the Air, Love Remains.

M

Massage Coupon, Memories, Miracle of Love A Token of My Love, Moonlit, My Heart belongs to you, My Heart is Thinking, My Heart The Miracle of Love Our Love is Strong, My Invitation, My Love Our Love is Free.

N

Now and Forever Without Your Love, Now I Know The Kiss.

O

Old Together, Only You, Our Love, Our Love Nest, Our Love Will Last, Our Two Hearts, Our Wedding Day Hey Cutie.

P

P.M.S, Passionate Kiss Kiss Coupon, Peek-A-Boo, Pockets of Love Live With Me.

R

Red Rose.

S

Safe With You, Search for One, Sending Kiss, Sending You My Love Magic of Flowers, So in Love, So Unique, Solitary Beauty Cuddle Me Please, Someone at Last Made for Each Other Safe and Sound, Soul Mates, Soul Partners, Steamy Dream, Steamy Sex Coupon, Summer Love A Weekend Getaway.

T

Take My Hand, Teddy Bear & Roses, Tender Whispers With This Ring, Thanks...Love, That Special Love, The Candle's Light, The Dance of Love, The Letter Bewitching Moonlight, The Love Bugs, The Mood for Love, The Sweet Taste of Love A Special Flower for You, The Time for Love, Thinking about you, Thinking of You Longing for You Twice Blest Forever and Ever, This Day Forward, This Feeling, Til the End of Time Heart of Mine, Till Morning's Light, Till Morninig's Light, Times Are Hard, Together You and I, Touched by Love Most Beautiful Girl Wrapped Up, Trunk Full Of Love, Twilight Paradise, Two of a Kind.

U

Unique Love My Eye on You, Unmatchable Beauty, Until the Day.

V

Vacation Love.

W

Waiting for You My Perfect Love True Love, Want to Meet?, Want You to Know, Waterfall, We Are Different, We Have Walked, We're a Perfect Fit, When I'm With You, When You Fall in Love, Why I Love You, Wild Nights--Wild Nights, Will You?, Window of Beauty, Wine and Roses, Wish I Could Tell You, With All My Love, With All of My Heart, With You, Won't you dance with me, Words I Write, Worthy of You.

Y

You and I Forever, You Are My Guiding Star Puppy Love, You Asked Me Why,
You Brighten My Day Love at First Sight, You Lucky Duck!, You Rock Me!, You Were Worth the Wait Showers Of Love Can't Wait to See You!, Your Love Has Opened, Your Silly Smile, You're My Hero, You're Soo kissable Angel of Love, You're the One.

rainee SG

You Are My Guiding Star Puppy Love

okie okie sorry, i cant resist it Laughing

Will pay attention to this virus, last week nearly got my computer infected by a virus that has been going on thru MSN Confused

ndmmxiaomayi SG

List of different names it's known by

If you can understand German, you can read the whole site. Otherwise, just scroll down and find the pink colour table to get the different names that this virus is known as, by the different vendors.

ndmmxiaomayi SG

Yeah... the MSN virus is now spreading quite fast.

This Valentine Day virus seems to want to sow discord among couples. Must be some single at work. Laughing

lpx88 SG

Must be some loner who cr8ted this virus Laughing

Y_Shun SG

how does it spreads? once u open, it auto copy itself into the computer?

ndmmxiaomayi SG

You need to open the attachment provided. It will then download the virus from some other sites and install.