Beijing Rising Technology Co., Ltd issued an urgent warning on June 7 against a newly found virus which spreads quickly through local area network. It is temporarily named "Chinese Hacker" since it seems to be hatched by Chinese.
Rising's global computer virus supervision and control center captured the virus on June 6. According to Rising anti-virus engineers, the virus spreads through e-mail system and is capable to start up by itself. As soon as clicked in Outlook, the virus would copy itself under the category of Windows//system 32 and named it Runouse. exe, and then start the file immediately.
As soon as it enters a certain computer of a local area network, the virus searches shared file folders among workgroup computers and create .eml files named after the infected computer, and finally making all computers of the local area network its "base of sending out".
The virus spreads very fast and enters computer's memory, and can not be killed by ordinary anti-virus software. So Rising engineers believe this is a rare "intellectual" virus made by Chinese following the "Win32.WantJob" and as evil as the imported goods, "Nimda" and "Red Code".
The captured virus is of lower version without attached destroying program, Rising said. But the program is ready and would be very dangerous as long as attached. To catch and kill the virus Rising has finished updating its anti-virus software.
(People's Daily June 10, 2002)
