The Dalekian way to end music piracy
http://www.sophos.com/security/blog/2007/10/689.html
No! Not my precious MP3's!
How would you like it if one day you ran a seemingly innocent file and every single MP3, WAV, AVI and MPG file on your harddisk died?
That’s what could happen if you were to be infected with Troj/MediaDel-A. It's a small VisualBasic script that replaces all of the aforesaid media files on your system with the following text message:
“you should not steal our hard work. thanks for understanding why we did this. RIAA/MPAA.”
Now, it's almost certain that the RIAA and MPAA are not stupid enough to distribute malware that would trash people's media files indiscriminately. It's more likely the work of a lone anti-piracy advocate or a script-kiddie looking to avoid blame, regardless its one nasty trick.
Fortunately this malware is not widely spread and we here at Sophos plan to keep it that way.
Chris Mitchell, SophosLabs Australia.
http://www.sophos.co.jp/virusinfo/analyses/trojmediadela.html
ここでは、この脅威の動作について説明します。
Troj/MediaDel-A は、Windows OS 用のトロイの木馬です。
実行されると、Troj/MediaDel-A は全ドライブで、拡張子 MP3、AVI、MPG および WAV のついたファイルをすべて、次のテキストで置き換えようとします。
"you should not steal our hard work. thanks for understanding why we did this. RIAA/MPAA."