Thursday, May 10, 2007

New Worm Targets Portable Memory Drives
Thursday, May 10, 2007
By Brian Prince


Researchers from security vendor
Sophos say a new worm targeting removable drives is an example of a potential security threat for businesses.

The
SillyFD-AA worm searches for removable drives such as floppy disks and USB memory sticks and creates a hidden file called autorun.inf so that a copy of the worm runs the next time the device is connected to a computer running Windows.

In addition, it changes the title of Internet Explorer windows to say that the computer has been "Hacked by 1BYTE."
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