New Virus Make Disorderly Printer, Paper Spend

Business offices in the United States, India, and Latin America are made out of paper by a new type of virus. Because, as reported by the BBC, the virus has made ​​thousands of printer printing random characters (garbage characters) until out of paper.

Events culprit tersebutadalah a malicious program called "Millicenso" which previously had often used by cyber criminals as a "vehicle" to send the malware to the victim.

Varian Millicenso this time used to send a French-speaking adware. Adware is diverting Internet traffic and displays advertisements on the victim's computer.

According to Symantec Symantec.com in a statement on the blog, one of the side effects Millicenso causes a PC to send commands to the printer to print a file from the root directory of the virus.

"The molds seem random vector is a side effect of this viral infection, not the main purpose of the creator of the virus," wrote Symantec.

Security companies are now issuing updates to detect and clean viruses Millicenso waster paper.

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