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McAfee Labs :

No more W32/Voterai.worm?

Thursday, December 13, 2007 at 10:37am by Paolo Palumbo
Paolo Palumbo

This is what we at Avert Labs hope will happen after the 27th of December 2007. In fact, on the date in question, General Elections in the country of Kenya will be held, including presidential and parliamentary.

With the elections gone, we hope to see the disappearance of the W32/Voterai family of worms. As you will remember, the Voterais are pretty damaging worms that, with the excuse of promoting this or that candidate, made infected machines almost completely unusable. The last variant of this family was discovered some days ago, and is detected by McAfee as W32/Voterai.worm.f.

Wishing the best to the Kenyan citizens for their elections, we are sure nobody will miss the Voterai family!

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  • MPcomputer December 15, 2007 6:04AM

    dear Paolo Palumbo
    thank you for useful information …..

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