New Worm W32.Deletemusic deletes MP3 files on the infected machine

New Worm W32.Deletemusic deletes MP3 files on the infected machine

A new worm has been discovered in the wild which hunts through the hard disks on the machine and deletes MP3 media files. Symantec has named it W32.Deletemusic.

Security experts have said that this new worm is only low risk though it could become a menace for a music fan by removing his entire collection of media.

Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for the security vendor Sophos said in a statement on this new worm: “The authors of this worm are more likely to be teenage mischief makers than the organized criminal gangs we typically see authoring financially-motivated malware these days. As such, it’s not something we would lose an awful lot of sleep over, but there are some lessons that computer users should learn to minimize the chances of infection.”

The worm has been designed to spread through flash drives in an attempt to bypass email filters. Symantec added that the worm creates an autorun file to start itself whenever a user accesses a drive.