Panda Announcement ??

[Temmu]

Last night, the BBC (radio) said that Panda announced "the worst epidemic of virus since (somehthing in 1998 or so)"
BBC said "infecting 6% of pc's globally".
but i cannot find anything about it at the usual suspect's sites - secunia, frist, cert, mcafee, etc., nor panda...

anyone heard of such?

[Basementgeek]

Here is what I got from the weekly panda email.  Maybe it is :

IRCBot.CIG is a worm that uses the MS08-067 vulnerability in Microsoft
Windows Server service in order to spread. Once it has infected a
computer, it gathers information about the system and sends it to its
creator via a Web page.

By modifying the Windows Registry it disables the task manager, firewall
notifications and the Windows antivirus. It also makes a modification so
that whenever the user tries to open Explorer, malware is run.

Interestingly, this worm exploits the same vulnerability as Conficker,
which continues to spread and has now affected 6% of computers scanned
by Panda Security worldwide
http://www.pandasecurity.com/spain/homeusers/media/press-releases/viewnews?noticia=9524

The link is in Spanish.

BG

[Temmu]

ah.  so it appears real.
i've yet to see it anywhere else...

thanks, basementgeek!