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Stealth technique used by malware is considered a core characteristic which has been developed, improved, redesigned, and reused. Michael Tants, Threat Researcher at Regional TrendLabs in Europe, has notified us of a worm that has a unique way of hiding: on infection, WORM_AUTORUN.JFZ writes a copy of itself in every ZIP-compressed file it finds on a system.
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......ugh....ew......autorun worms....and they're getting worse.

Does it still affect people who have their computers vaccinated or will it still bypass is what I wonder....
Orange Blossom
From the article, it looks like one protection is to change Windows default settings so that all extensions are seen.

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