View source for Newly detected Crisis virus infects Windows, Macs and virtual machines

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|Author=Robert Lemos, 
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|Date=22 aug2012
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|Abstract=The malicious Java executable, which hasn’t been observed in the wild, spreads not only among Windows machines, but includes code to infect Macs and VMWare virtual machines.

A computer virus that aims to infect Windows machines and steal data can also opportunistically infect Apple's Mac OS X and VMWare virtual machines, security firms said this week.

The malware, called Crisis, can spread through the autorun functionality of removable disk drives, install components on Windows Mobile devices and copy itself to virtual machine instances. The latter functionality is the most interesting, because malware typically attempts to avoid virtual machines, as attackers worry that any computers running the technology are generally owned by security analysts looking to reverse engineer malicious software, says Vikram Thakur, principal security response manager for Symantec.
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|Keyword=Java, 
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