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Tuesday, November 22, 2011

Duqu's new viruses attack Windows operating system

Budapest: As preached TGDaily, Wednesday (2 / 11), researchers from laboratories , CrySyS, in Hungary said file's been infected with a virus that will harm a Microsoft Word document. As a result, viruses are exploiting the immune system that can document with code "zero-day" so that important data is lost.


Duqu's new viruses attack Windows operating system

The world of technology re-attacked with the emergence of new viruses that attack Windows operating system. Viruses named Duqu hit industry by making the computer system becomes vulnerable.

After Duqu gain a foothold in a file, the virus can spread up to a distance by using the Server Message Block protocol. Worse yet, use the file and the function "printer sharing" which also can create multiple computers in a network is infected.

Anti-virus company Symantec says, although some newly infected computers do not have the ability to connect to the Internet, but the virus has the ability to connect to other servers.

Duqu can create a bridge between the server's internal network and server C & C. It allows an attacker to access Duqu infection in the safe zone with the aid of a computer outside the safe zone that is used as a proxy.