Beijing Information Security Assessment Center and Kingsoft Antivirus jointly released the popular virus on December 29, 2004.
Today, users are reminded to pay special attention to the following viruses: "Legendary *" () and "Hot Dog" ().
The "Legendary *" * virus, which specifically steals information such as the account and password of the legendary online game and sends it to the place designated by the * grower.
The "hot dog" * virus, which uses similar file names to trick users into running, modify the browser's default homepage, and modify the .txt file to associate it with the virus file.
1. "Legendary *" () Threat level: ★★
According to Kingsoft Anti-Virus Engineer, this is a DLL released by the * horses that steal legendary online games. It is generally used to monitor keyboard messages, or take over network communications, and collect sensitive information (such as accounts and passwords) in it and send it to the * collector. This file is often accompanied by an EXE file. If you only delete this file when manually clearing it, it may not be completely deleted, and you also need to delete the executable program that calls it.
Kingsoft Anti-Virus experts remind users: After the emergence of various online games in China, various game viruses will also spread. Players must do a good job in preventing related viruses to avoid causing major losses.
2. "Hot Dog" () Threat Level: ★★
According to Kingsoft Antivirus Antivirus Engineer, this is a * virus. The virus will copy itself to the system directory and make the name of the virus file the same as the name of the system file (for example and) to confuse the user. In addition, the virus also modifies the browser's default homepage and associates the .txt file with the virus file. When the user runs the .txt file, the virus will run.
Kingsoft Antivirus Antivirus experts remind users: establish good safety habits. Do not open some emails and attachments of unknown origin, do not go to some websites you don’t know much, and do not execute files that have not been processed by anti-virus software after downloading from the Internet, so that your computer is safer.
Kingsoft Antivirus Antivirus Engineer reminds you: Please upgrade the Antivirus until December 29, 2004 to fully process the virus. If Kingsoft Antivirus is not installed, you can log in to / use Kingsoft Antivirus's online drug check or Kingsoft Antivirus download version to prevent the virus from invading.