Kido virus has a new dangerous variant

Kaspersky Lab announced that it has just discovered a new change in the Kido virus strain. This is the latest and different variant from the previous Kido series by extending the trojan's features included with it .

Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.ip , Net-Worm.Win32.Kido.iq and other variants represent the latest changes of this Kido virus strain. It is capable of resisting antivirus software installed on infected computers. These new variants also generate a large number of strange domains from which it can download more than 50,000 malicious data compared to 250 for previous versions.

Kido virus has a Trojan Downloader function, which means it will load other malicious viruses onto the infected computer. Causing the network to be overloaded or congested, at the same time some software with IDS feature will continuously report an error of attacking ' Intrusion.Win.NETAPI.buffer-overflow.exploit '.

Over the past 7 days, many users and businesses have asked Kaspersky Lab Vietnam to support the elimination of this new variant of Kido virus. In fact, the Kido virus has appeared and raged since January 2, 2009 and according to statistics, there are more than 9 million computers infected with this virus so far.

According to Mr. Nguyen Thanh Sang - Technical Support Department of NTS - Kaspersky Lab Vietnam, this new outbreak is considered to be a serious and serious influence on businesses in Vietnam, because New variants of Kido virus disable the ability to restore the system, prohibit access to secure web sites and install malicious programs on the PC, spread very fast and very difficult to destroy. Kido virus is one of the fastest spreading viruses, users should let Kaspersky operate on the computer and scan virus periodically at least 02 weeks / 1 time.

To prevent penetration and spread of Kido virus, Kaspersky Lab has come up with some useful special solutions to use kidokiller.exe to remove it completely. Customers can see how to kill this new variant of Kido virus at Kaspersky Lab Vietnam website (www.kaspersky.vn) or in this article .