After being infected by the "Xiao Hao" worm, the file icon becomes "hao", similar to "pandatv incense.
According to Xinhua news agency, the National Computer Virus emergency response center found through Internet monitoring that a new worm, WormXiaoHao, was recently spread using a USB flash drive. a), the infected file icon becomes A "hao" pattern.
The worm is similar to the previous worm "pandatv", which can infect executable files (suffixed with. EXE ). The difference is that the infected executable files cannot run and be recovered normally.
After the worm is running, two virus files are released under the root directory of each disk in the infected computer system to make the file infected with a new virus file, at the same time, the infected file icon becomes a "hao" pattern.
In addition, the worm uses the automatic playback function of Windows and the USB flash drive to spread viruses. Once the computer double-click the USB flash drive with the worm, the system will be infected.