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Worm plays games with victims
A worm that plays video game Tetris with victims as it attempts to further contaminate networks has infected a small number of PCs, antivirus firm Sophos warned Wednesday.
The worm, known as Cellery.A, uses a playable version of the Russian video game to attract victims. While people play Tetris, the worm attempts to spread to networked hard drives and other accessible systems on a company's network that use the Microsoft Windows operating system, the firm stated in an advisory. "If your company has a culture of allowing games to be played in the office, your staff may believe this is simply a new game that has been installed--rather than something that should cause concern," Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said in a statement.
Sophos did not mention the previous Tetris worm in its advisory, and it's unknown whether the two Tetris-playing programs are related. The first computer virus to affect a general-purpose computer system was also linked to a game. Virus-like program Pervade was created in 1975 by John Walker--who later founded Autodesk--as a means of distributing the game "Animal" on UNIVAC systems. The virus spread through files transferred between systems on magnetic tapes. Sophos has released its latest antivirus signatures to detect the Cellery worm.
Source: ZDNet
A worm that plays video game Tetris with victims as it attempts to further contaminate networks has infected a small number of PCs, antivirus firm Sophos warned Wednesday.
The worm, known as Cellery.A, uses a playable version of the Russian video game to attract victims. While people play Tetris, the worm attempts to spread to networked hard drives and other accessible systems on a company's network that use the Microsoft Windows operating system, the firm stated in an advisory. "If your company has a culture of allowing games to be played in the office, your staff may believe this is simply a new game that has been installed--rather than something that should cause concern," Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said in a statement.
Sophos did not mention the previous Tetris worm in its advisory, and it's unknown whether the two Tetris-playing programs are related. The first computer virus to affect a general-purpose computer system was also linked to a game. Virus-like program Pervade was created in 1975 by John Walker--who later founded Autodesk--as a means of distributing the game "Animal" on UNIVAC systems. The virus spread through files transferred between systems on magnetic tapes. Sophos has released its latest antivirus signatures to detect the Cellery worm.
Source: ZDNet
posted by ZachO at 11:37 PM
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What I hate about the whole change in video games ZachO is the controllers.
Why does ever game now make me use the 2 joy sticks to move a person within the game.I just want to add my 2 cent to your blog Everyone Loves Tetris. Anyway take care also visit my site used game systems .Time to game on !!!
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