China on Alert for 'Chinese Hacker' Virus

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China on Alert for 'Chinese Hacker' Virus

A warning of a seemingly destructive computer virus is on release, which is reportedly spreading quickly through intronet. It is temporarily named "Chinese Hacker", since it seems to be out of a Chinese hand.

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Beijing Rising Technology Co., Ltd issued an urgent warning on June 7 against a newly found virus which spreads quickly through intronet. It is temporarily named "Chinese Hacker", since it seems to be out of a Chinese hand.

Rising's global computer virus supervision and control center captured the virus on June 6.

According to Rising anti-virus engineers, the virus spreads through e-mail system and is capable to start up by itself.

Once being clicked in the Outlook mail system, the virus would copy itself under the category of Windows system 32 and named it Runouse.exe, and then start the file immediately.

As soon as it enters one of computers of an intronet, the virus will automatically search for shared file folders within the workgroup and create ".eml" files named after the infected computer, and finally making all intronet computers infected.

The virus spreads very fast and enters computer's internal memory, and can not be killed by ordinary anti-virus software, according to Rising company.

Rising engineers believe this is a rare "intellectual" virus made by Chinese following the "Win32.WantJob", which is as evil as the imported viruses, such as "Nimda" and "Red Code".

The captured virus is just the lower version without attached destroying program, Rising said.

But the program is ready and would be very dangerous once the destructive program attached, according to the company.

By PD Online Staff Member Li Heng

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