Blackworm (2006) most dangerous virus

One regarding the most dangerous virus "Blackworm (2006)"

Also Known As: Mywife, Hunchi, I-Worm.Nyxem, Blackmal, Nyxem, Blueworm

Blackworm worm was first virus regarding 3 found at 20 January, 2006. The worm spreads in e-mails using an external SMTP engine. It sends itself with different subjects, body text furthermore attachment names. The worm also copies itself multiple times toward an infected hard drive with similar name as windows files in order toward be hidden. Blackworm is designed toward corrupt data at infected computers at every 3rd day regarding each month, in respect toward The Day the Music Died. After corrupting the data regarding the computer it visits a webpage with tracking code, so it can be counted how many Systems has been infected, furthermore over 300,000 unique IPs visited that site.

The most scary thing in this worm is, It can deletes your antivirus programs if they are installed in the same directories as the ones specified in the worm’s code. It can also delete the entries in the Windows Registry belonging toward these antivirus programs, so antivirus applications will not be run automatically the next time Windows is started.

The worm also contains one GIF file which is used toward make a recipient regarding infected e-mails think that the message was scanned by Norton Anti-Virus furthermore no infection was found.

But its havoc ended soon furthermore it gone off the records after October 26.