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Virus opponent BitDefender has brought out a free program to remove the Benjamin-virus. Everybody that during the downloading in KaZaA infect is, can want to make with the tooltje its pc healthy.

Benjamin is a new virus that self disguises as a music, movie or program truce. Users that the truce download and reboot, are confronted with talloze doll-plain fizzy drink advertentiebanners. Meanwhile Benjamin fills the hard disk with copies of itself, each time with someone else name.

That is special chosen to be from a list of thousand possibilities attractive for other KaZaA-users, as 'American Pie 2 - DiVX' or '' Acrobat Capture 3.0-full'. Because the virus self an user will multiply remains end after a course of time with much less raise space and an aboutloaded internet connection.

“The virus is self rush spreading”, says BitDefender, “about that guess we at that everybody that truces has downloaded via KaZaA immediately our tool use on the virus epidemic to stop.” Sorin Dudea, researcher by the business, has besides its suspectes about the origin of Benjamin. “The virus uses an impressive list of more than thousand titles of recent movies, mp3-liedjes or expensive software, so that users the would download. Even already falls that nowhere from off to lead, will it once in a while an attempt can be round the distribution of DivX-movies and (illegal) software through exchange networks against to go.”

Benjamin is relative easy to recognize. Although it each time someone else name carries, is the virus much smaller than the truces that it pretended to be. applications and movies are vague tens until hundred megabytes large. Standard has becomes Benjamin a size of 216 KB - already it per infection round always something larger.

The BitDefender-program Benjamin you can to remove raise by socraweb Downloads. The link find you at the bottom.