Monday, February 14, 2011

Folder icon (.exe) virus.

 This type of virus normally is about 600-800 kb in size .It mostly spreads through USB drive and remains undetected most of the time. It replaces all the folders in the system by hiding them and create a .exe one with the same name. Every time you open your folders the virus runs a process in the background and opens the same folder but in a new window. And when you are working the background process starts replacing all folders in the system. Slowly the response time of the system decreases and ultimately it crashes.

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