'Pandemic' Vietnamese virus - Need a stronger method

In April 2006, netizens began to stand down with viruses called gaixinh , the harm of this virus was promptly stopped, virus writers were quickly identified and handled.

However, in just a short time, the virus "made in Vietnam" has a mechanism similar to that of thinhinh continuously spreading.

From 'test' viruses .

Continuously in the past days, these 'internal' viruses have been imposingly acting as netizens. According to the BKIS Network Security Center, there were 11 viruses with 15 variants taking advantage of the flawed IM (Instant Messenger) program.

According to Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang, director of BKIS, the authors of these viruses are very young teenagers, mostly because they want to test their knowledge, they have collected the available code, fixed and then spread, very carefree and not thinking about the consequences that their victims suffer.

'Pandemic' Vietnamese virus - Need a stronger method Picture 1 Gaixinh's author, after being fined, spread the source code of the virus to the HVA forum for other hackers to inherit and promote the career of monsters! So far, the latest version of it has been http://viet8x.evonet.ro spread through the message and even climbed the status of the victim account with ' Nothing is impossible! Because impossible itself is IM possible! '' Chan is very beautiful ', making many people who are wary of being easily fooled.

Preliminary statistics from September 12 to noon of September 13 had about 9,100 infected computers, hundreds of calls to BKIS asking for ways to handle infected computers.

Need stronger measures?

Experts in Vietnam cybersecurity in recent years have constantly warned about the dangers of stalking computer users. More and more important information is stored in personal computers and the lost or deleted information will cause significant physical and mental damage (in case of loss of sensitive information).

Talking about the virus spread through Yahoo Messenger, Mr. Nguyen Tu Quang said that BKIS warned many times, suggesting users to be cautious in opening strange links.

More and more viruses are improved and more sophisticated, the variants of the screen are no longer visible to the exe or when clicking on the link, it is recommended to download the program to the computer. Taking advantage of the Windows vulnerability, later viruses are more difficult to identify, when clicking on the link, the victim will not see any dialog boxes or questions and the computer will be infected.

' From gaixinh to now, there are about 200,000 computers infected with viruses made in Vietnam and originated from gaixinh . If you try to imagine that all 200,000 computers have lost their data and infected other computers, it's terrible. We recommend the authorities to strictly handle people who distribute viruses and those who distribute virus source code .

There has been sufficient evidence of the author who has ever donated this virus source on the HVA forum. That behavior shows that he has not really repented. Therefore, it is necessary to have higher handling measures for administrative sanctions '.

H.NHUNG