Worm turns on music lovers

[Malicious Intent]

Worm turns on music lovers

Written by Dinah Greek, edited down by MI

Hackers are targeting music lovers by creating a virus that deletes MP3 files on infected computers.

The worm, dubbed Nopir.B and believed to originate from France, lurks on peer-to-peer file-sharing sites. Aimed at people looking for ways to get around copyright restriction technology on paid for music sites, the worm masquerades as a DVD-cracking program in order to fool people into downloading it.

Once downloaded and run, Nopir.B attempts to delete all MP3 music files and wipe other programs from the infected PC according to anti virus developer Sophos.

"Whichever side of the fence you come down on in regards to internet piracy, there's no debate about the criminal nature of this worm It's designed to inflict malicious damage on people's Windows computers," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos.

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Update your anti virus!

[eclectica]

"Hackers are targeting music lovers"

I don't like the disparaging of all hackers in reference to this Nopir worm, and besides they don't even know who authored it.

[CTC Command]

"Hackers are targeting music lovers"

I don't like the disparaging of all hackers in reference to this Nopir worm, and besides they don't even know who authored it.

Wha--? i dont see how the aforementioned quote means or even implies that there was some confederation or conspiracy of ALL hackers that decided en masse to attack music file-sharers--obviously though, some hacker or hackers did write this program that does target music lovers that fileshare. .

And those hackers responsible should be administered a REAL virus--nothing fatal, just something that would cripple them, like the computers that get infected with their little file-destroying prog... :reallymad: