Navidad virus

W32.Navidad is a mass-mailing worm program or virus, discovered in December 2000, designed to spread through email clients such as Microsoft Outlook[1] while masquerading as an electronic Christmas card.[2] Infected computers can be identified by blue eye icons which appear in the Windows system tray.[2]

Users who move their mouse cursor over the eye icons will be presented with a variety of different messages, including one which states: "Emmanuel-God is with us!May god bless u.And Ash, Lk, and LJ!!"[2]

References

  1. ↑ "W32.Navidad". Symantec. Retrieved 27 February 2018.
  2. 1 2 3 "A short history of Christmas malware". Naked Security. 15 December 2010. Retrieved 27 February 2018.


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