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Fujack Variant Spreads among Pune Computers

A lot of unsuspecting students and parents in Pune city (India) who attempted to check the class 11th admission results online on July 17-18, 2007 could have unwittingly installed a computer virus on their PCs.

The worm/Trojan downloader is identified as Win32, a Fujack version, and has its source in China. On clicking the link on the site's homepage to scan the admission results of class XI, the Trojan worm directs the user to a malicious URL, http://www.nirmiteesolution.com/xi/op2.htm.

The Fujack variant immediately infects the system that hosts nimriteesolution.com, reported Sanjay Katkar, CTO and Technical Director, Quick Heal, an anti-virus software supplier based in Pune. Timesofindia published this in its news on July 19, 2007.

Fujack is a virus and a worm for the network. It contaminates executable files having certain types of extensions as well as web pages (it tags an iFrame and a malware-hosting Uniform Resource Locator to them). Fujack (worm), when active, spreads to detachable media like the network drives or USB (Universal Serial Bus) drives.

Katkar explains that when a user visits this particular web page and if the anti-virus safety is absent on his/her PC, the worm could download the corrupt file on the system from the web address it had already added on the pages. Hence, the system get infected with the corrupt file.

Those users who had the most recent anti-virus software installed on their computers were unable to open the special page on www.nimriteesolution.com. Instead, they got an alert about a virus entry onto their systems.

Due to lack of proper anti-virus protection, the infection could crawl into at least 60-65% of home computers in the computer-savvy city. And majority of the infected people are those without any licensed or latest versions, stated Jagannath Patnaik, VP, sales and marketing, Quick Heal. Spywarestromer reported this on July 18, 2007.

The worm is likely to make a significant impact on Pune because it has the maximum use of personal computers in India. People in the city buy as many as 12,000 systems every month. And most buyers are domestic users, according to a survey by research company IDC.

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