"SirCam" Breaks Records for Spreading.

In only six days since its detection on June 18, the network worm `SirCam" has spread throughout the world and has convincingly seized first place amongst the most wide-spreading malicious programs. At this time, Kaspersky Labs' technical support department has received tens of thousands of messages from France, the USA, Canada, China, Russia, Spain, India, United Kingdom, Germany, Poland, Italy, Turkey, Argentina, and many other countries reporting infection by `SirCam." "SirCam" spreads as a file attachment to an e-mail, and at the same time, this file does not have a consistent name, extension and a message text. In addition to this, the worm is sent out from infected computers supposedly on behalf of its creator. In order to do this unbeknown to a user, it creates fake emails and; sends them to all addresses found in the infected PC. Such a lack of outer-appearance continuity has fooled many users into believing in the sent-files' authenticity and safety. Without suspecting foul play, users open these files on their computers, single-handedly infecting their own systems. It is also necessary to remember "SirCam" dangerous side effect: in addition to taking up free space on a disk, the worm deletes, with a 5% probability, all files and subdirectories from the Windows directory. Defense procedures for thwarting the "SirCam" network worm already have been added to KasperskyTM Anti-Virus database as of June18. Kaspersky Labs strongly urges users to download and install the "SitCam" update. For those using a different anti-virus, Kaspersky Labs has developed a special detection utility for complete "SirCam" eradication (including Windows system registry recovery). You may download the program free of charge here:

http.kaspersky.com/utils/elrav.zip. More in-depth information about the "SirCam" worm is available in the Kaspersky Virus Encyclopedia:

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