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Cyber Attack Code Starts Killing Infected PCs
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David_WHM on 13 July, 2009 12:14:00
 
(WebHost Magazine) The botnet-driven cyber attack on government, financial, and
media sites in the U.S and South Korea includes a newly discovered danger: The
malicious code responsible for driving the distributed denial of service attack,
known as W32.Dozer, is designed to delete data on infected computers and to
prevent the computers from being rebooted.
"Your machine is completely hosed at this stage," said Vincent Weafer, VP at
Symantec Security Response.
The malicious code includes instructions to start deleting files when the
infected computer's internal clock reaches July 10, 2009. That's today. ... Go
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