Today is the 25th of December. The Bacros virus activates today, deleting all files on all local hard drives.

Activation routine like that is pretty rare. We nowadays don't see destructive viruses too often...most of the new viruses just try to silently take over your machine instead of deleting files.

Bacros is in the wild. Over the last months we've received reports from several countries. But so far we haven't received any reports of overwritten hard drives. Then again, if you're hard drive is overwritten, you can't easily email us, can you?

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Several phpBB administrators have reported to us that they are seeing lots of Santy-like activity.

Like mentioned before, Google is filtering the searches that the original Santy (and the variants that were created by corruption) were using.

But now we're seeing fairly large network scans that are trying to find vulnerable phpBB forums in order to install IRC bots on them.

read it all here