Symantec Spots Worm to Sabotage Businesses

A worm has been found that is designed to sabotage businesses, according to a Symantec blog. The worm attaches itself to the SQL data bases of business servers and starts seeking specific words. The worm, titled w32.Narilam, can erase data from drive storage and may be impossible to repair without a thorough data backup.

The worm targets corporate databases and is designed to sabotage and destroy data therefore disrupting business activity and costing businesses money and time in order to repair the damage and resume normal business. Most of the activity has been seen in the Middle East where once it gains hold in the system it spreads throughout the network to other drives and even USB drives attached to computers.

The worm is written in Delphi which is used to create other destructive malware targeting SQL databases. Dallas Virus Removal has experienced many of these destructive worms and viruses that may often corrupt and damage boot files where the system must be reinstalled. W32.Narilam, however, is not intended to steal data but simply to destroy data tables within the SQL database.

A caution for all business owners and individual computer users to always backup data and be prepared for disaster.

Malware Shaming on Personal Computer Users

PC Virus Doctors have seen an increase in the Reveton malware that displays a splash screen and freezes the computer with the splash screen sometimes showing an FBI logo and demand for ransom money, also known as ransomware. The new scam involves porn images that are now replacing the FBI fake logo scheme, according to PCWorld.

The malware can be very difficult to remove with often times the hard drive must be pulled and worked on. This technique may not always have the best results as cleaning the viruses and trojans may not be 100%. Upon booting the splash screen may be gone but now the screen is just blank with either boot file corruption or just a blank splash screen where computer access is still not possible after the "cleaned" drive has been reinstalled in the original desktop or laptop.

Users experiencing their computers with porn images frozen upon booting can call PC Virus Doctorsfor immediate assistance.