Nasty worm on the loose - Tixcet.A

[Rik]

A new worm, Tixcet.A, is on the loose and attempting to pass itself off as a Word document according to security experts.

The worm, which was discovered by Panda Labs, was first detected at the end of May and proves particularly destructive, deleting many files and replacing them with a copy of itself.

Among files at risk of being deleted include Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, MP3 files, zip archives and JPEG images.

The symptoms that an infected PC will show include the word 'cetix', which is added to the System Tray and appears next to the time. You will also not be able to run the Task Manager or the Windows Registry Editor.

Panda recommends keeping your PC's anti-virus and firewall products up to date and not opening any Word files from unknown senders.


www.pandasecurity.com

[Inactive]

Sounds nasty Rik... Thanks.. 

[kinmel]

Thanks Rik,

Up shields !

[madasahatter]

A new worm, Tixcet.A, is on the loose and attempting to pass itself off as a Word document according to security experts.

The worm, which was discovered by Panda Labs, was first detected at the end of May and proves particularly destructive, deleting many files and replacing them with a copy of itself.

Among files at risk of being deleted include Word documents, PowerPoint presentations, MP3 files, zip archives and JPEG images.

The symptoms that an infected PC will show include the word 'cetix', which is added to the System Tray and appears next to the time. You will also not be able to run the Task Manager or the Windows Registry Editor.

Panda recommends keeping your PC's anti-virus and firewall products up to date and not opening any Word files from unknown senders.


www.pandasecurity.com

Cheers for the heads up Rik.

Otoh, anyone who opens up attachments on e-mails where they don't know the sendersprobably deserves it 

Cue several posts from Mad saying, "I've got this worm on my PC, and I can't open Task manager - what do I do?" 

[Rik]

Answers please, on a postcard...

[madasahatter]

Answers please, on a postcard...

But only nice polite ones - hoobs are very sensitive and can be easily hurt you know 

[Rik]

I was thinking of the classic seaside type...

[madasahatter]

oo errrrrr missus - titter ye not 

[Sebby]

Thanks for the heads up, Rik.

[Rik]

I stole it from Simon's mate, Clive.

[Dangerjunkie]

Answers please, on a postcard...

I usually start by going to http://www.sysinternals.com and downloading Process Explorer, Autoruns and Rootkit Revealer.

Cheers,
Paul.

[Rik]

I didn't realise they'd acquired quite so much, Paul.

[Ray]

Cheers for the heads up Rik.



Cue several posts from Mad saying, "I've got this worm on my PC, and I can't open Task manager - what do I do?" 

I'm sure if you do have a problem, Mad, you'll find something to deal with it on this site: -

http://www.stopwormsdead.co.uk/ 

[madasahatter]

 

cheeky!! 

[Ray]

cheeky!! 

[David]

Very Dogmatic over this then........................................