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Technology News ? Computer virus hits office printers
June 22, 2012 by
A technology news source reveals that numerous companies faced real challenge when they had tough time printing documents. Thousands of pages of paper had been sent to bins as the Windows virus had wrecked the numerous computers. If security firms are to be believed, the large businesses in the US, India, Europe, and South America were among the most affected ones. The virus to be blamed for this menace is a malicious program named Milicenso which is a pet tool for hi-tech cyber criminal groups and used many a times.
Symantec, the security firm had scrutinized the virus, Milicenso and has reported that this virus was first observed in 2010. ?Since then it has emerged again and again to cause serious implications on thousands of the computers across the world. The latest attack was in the form of French language adware which was generously distributed. Milicenso traces out various modes of inference taint a computer. One of its most preferred modes of attack is through an email attachment sent via a compromised website or being attached as a fake video decoder.
No sooner than the computer virus is installed, it locates a place on the net and further re-directs web traffic to meet adverts. According to Symantec a partial impact of the virus attack was that it generated a file in a Computer?s printer queue. This in-turn compromises the contents of the files in the main directory of the virus into print jobs. Symantec also believes, ?The garbled printouts appear to be a side effect of the infection vector rather an intentional goal of the author?.
The forums run by the security firm, Symantec had been crammed with the impacts reported by the virus victims. It was also reported that there were quite adverse cases which witnessed hundreds of printers issuing twaddle printouts and wasted numerous rolls of paper. Symantec and several other security firms have worked out updates to track Milicenso and get it removed completely along with its adverse effects.
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