Windows Virus infiltrate the Apple Application Store


malware (malware) in Windows indeed ineffective work on operating systems Mac OS and iOS from Apple. However, different story if malware Windows creep into the Apple App Store, which became a centre of shopping app for iPhone users, iPad, and iPod Touch.


CNet tech sites reported, found a malware-worm (worm) in Windows, that creep into the App Store. Worm is infiltrated into the application called Instaquotes-Quotes Cards for Instagram, developed by the Ilyas Hassani from Morocco.


According to ComputerWorld's site, this could be a problem for the users of the iPhone, iPad, and iPod Touch, which synchronize the account in Apple's iTunes computer operating system Windows.


A user of Apple's mobile devices, which synchronize from a Windows computer, download two applications, one of which is Instaquotes-Quotes Cards for Instagram. "I downloaded two apps from iTunes, and one of them is infected by a virus," said a user who uses the name "deesto".


ComputerWorld extract archive application Instaquotes-Quotes Cards for Instagram, and then scanned using Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus on your computer Windows 7. This antivirus Software detect and warn that there is a file contains Win32/VB.CB, that in fact is a long worm.


According to the Microsoft website, this worm appeared in 2008 and is known by other names W32.Imaut. USA (by Symantec), W32/Autorun.worm.h (McAfee), W32/VB-DGA (Sophos).


Microsoft says that this worm "trying to spread via Yahoo! Messenger."


Worm propagation process can be done via internet network which is connected to the infected system. There are worms that includes virus codes, which can damage files, steals a document, e-mail, or do other things that are destructive.


 

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