{"id":115,"date":"2007-08-04T08:16:27","date_gmt":"2007-08-04T13:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ironwil.net\/blog\/2007\/08\/04\/the-worm-that-ate-the-music\/"},"modified":"2007-08-04T08:16:27","modified_gmt":"2007-08-04T13:16:27","slug":"the-worm-that-ate-the-music","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/2007\/08\/the-worm-that-ate-the-music\/","title":{"rendered":"The Worm that ate the Music"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today Ars Technica reports that W32.DeleteMusic, a new worm, will delete all MP3 files on your computer.  The worm replicates across portable hard drives and flash media. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t the first time such a worm has gone after MP3 files. Nopir-B made  its rounds some two years ago and posed as DVD copying software, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/pressoffice\/news\/articles\/2005\/04\/va_nopirb.html\">according<\/a>  to security firm Sophos. When users tried to run it, Nopir-B scolded them  for participating in piracy and proceeded to delete all MP3s from their computers.  Similarly, last year&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/pressoffice\/news\/articles\/2006\/05\/erazer.html\">Erazer<\/a>  trojan deleted not only MP3 files, but AVIs, MPEGs, WMVs, and ZIP files as  well in a &#8216;crusade&#8217; against piracy.&#8221;(1)<\/p>\n<p>Watch yourselves and update your virus definitions and Ars Technica recommends that we also turn off auto-run features.<\/p>\n<p>iron wil<\/p>\n<p>Notes:<\/p>\n<p>(1) <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/\" title=\"Ars Technica Website\" target=\"_blank\">Ars Technica<\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/arstechnica.com\/news.ars\/post\/20070803-average-pc-is-a-smorgasboard-for-a-new-mp3-eating-trojan.html\" title=\"MP3 Eating Worm\">Average PC is a smorgasboard for a new MP3-eating trojan<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today Ars Technica reports that W32.DeleteMusic, a new worm, will delete all MP3 files on your computer. The worm replicates across portable hard drives and flash media. &#8220;This isn&#8217;t the first time such a worm has gone after MP3 files. Nopir-B made its rounds some two years ago and posed as DVD copying software, according [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[179,177,183,170,178,174],"class_list":["post-115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-anti-virus","tag-microsoft","tag-news","tag-security","tag-vista","tag-xp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.ironwil.net\/cs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}