It is nothing to laugh at and should be understood that gamers have no freedom right now. That said this new Variant to Virux Trojan is in regards to Win32/Vitro Trojan. It seems tobe infecting .exe and .Scr files just like this.
According to Trend Micro:
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The downloaded malware include variants under the FAKEAV, TDSS, and VUNDO families. Infection chains, however, are notable for the presence of VIRUT and VIRUX malware. VIRUX and VIRUT attacks were initially about the volume of infected PCs. The numbers are massive enough to worry Web users and security researchers: around 20,000 PCs are infected per day
Read more: “Crack Sites Distribute VIRUX and FakeAV“
Now it seems to be more and more sites with getting computer infected. It also seems the Malware writers are using these servers for helping infect essentially gamers computers. So for the time being, if you have a favorite game and you want to:
- No-CD Crack (This is good for those who want to play the game without the CD)
- Key Gen Cracks (This is used for pirated version of a game)
- Update Cracks (This is used to prevent CD checking or Also prevent Version Checking)
- Game Cheats (This is usually a small program like a bot or some other way for the gamer to cheat)
And should not be Downloaded or USED!! I don’t say that lightly, because Gamers feel they should be able to play any game they want. Although this post will probably make the Gamer developers happy, I do this to tell people that these virus writers are using the gamers to distribute the Virus. I encourage all the gamers out there, that don’t want to loose their games to not download any more of these types of cracks. It seems the virus writers are wanting to infect systems and slow you down. You don’t want to slowed down do you? Please consider getting a Firewall and a Free Anti-virus software to better protect your system.
