'Take the Classroom',Local Virus Make Cracks in Windows

Indonesia's Most local virus attacks by using the user mere negligence.But this one virus has been 'first class' by exploiting Windows vulnerabilities.The presence of virus was delivered by antivirus researchers of Vaksincom,Alfons Tanujaya."He made a shortcut and exploit vulnerabilities.Seldom local virus exploits a security hole," said Alfons to ITGazine.

Adang Jauhar Taufik,antivirus Vaksincom analyst,said the first report of this virus came from the city of Gorontalo on Sulawesi.The spread of this virus is known via a USB Flashdrive.

These viruses change the folder that is in the USB stick into the shortcut.Then,if a shortcut is accessed virus will infect the computer until the computer's performance become poor.

In addition,Alfons said,this virus to protect himself from the tool as Security Task Manager or other process killer application.If used,the application could hang or die.

"Apparently,the virus makers pay attention to virus eradication articles Vaksincom often using Security Task Manager.So if cleared,he was prepare," said Alfons.

Cracks are utilized by this virus is a Microsoft Windows Shell shortcut handling remote code execution vulnerability,MS10-046.Microsoft has provided a patch to patch this vulnerability.Norman Security Suite detects this virus as W32/VBWorm.BEUA.For its shortcut files identified as Trojan:LNK / CplLnk.A and files.DLL detected as W32/Suspicious_Gen2.BTDDL.

Dr.Web Anti-virus detects the virus as W32/HLLW.Autoruner.25850.File shortcuts are recognized as the Exploit.Cpllnk and files.DLL detected as Win32.HLLW.VBNA.3.

Adang said the virus is created by using Visual Basic language program.Viruses with the size of 128 KB it thinks will have the extensions EXE or SCR,as well as Microsoft Visual Basic Project icon.