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Whats in Computer Viruses front

On the Computer viruses front,Its Worm@W32.Denat is the latest most damaging Virus. Denat worm spreads through network

shares. It searches for shared drives and folders on an affected system and then infects all executable (.EXE) files residing

on found shares, it will set virus file's attributes to Hidden, let users not be easy to perceive.

Its a worm which was discovered on 2006/06/12.Trend Micro says its having another alias called PE_DENAT.E.It affects Windows

95/98/ME,Windows NT/2000/XP/2003, with a High damage and distribution rate.

Its working states are:

1.Checks C:\Recycled whether there are SVCH0ST.EXE files, if it has not the file, create the "SVCH0ST.EXE".

2.Checks the "C:\Recycled",if it does not exist, it will create "Recycled" folder.

3.If a user runs an infected CALC.EXE file. It will create [Single space][CALE][.EXE] under the same folder and set the
file's attributes to Hidden.

4.The worm spreads through network shares. It searches for shared drives and folders on an affected system and then infects all executable (.EXE) files residing on found shares.

5. The worm will download the file and execute the following file:001.WOS

Av Comparatives is an organization which tests and benchmarks Antiviruses. This organization has listed the follwing AVs in
this order:

Avast! Professional Edition 4.7
AVG Professional 7.1
AVIRA AntiVir Personal Edition Premium 7.01
BitDefender Professional Plus 9.5
Dr.Web for Windows 95-XP 4.33.2
ESET NOD32 Anti-Virus 2.51.26
F-Prot for Windows 3.16f
F-Secure Anti-Virus 6.12
G DATA AntiVirusKit (AVK) 16.0.7
Kaspersky Anti-Virus 6.0
McAfee VirusScan 11.0
Norman Virus Control 5.81
Symantec Norton Anti-Virus 12.2
TrustPort Antivirus Workstation 2.0
VBA32 Workstation 3.11.0

Personally I am using Antivir and Avast these days and I am satisfied with their performances.

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