Recently my PC was infected by a deadly virus, actually not so deadly enough, just said that to lay stress on the topic. The virus was detected as W32/Virut.Gen (a generic detection for the W32/Virut family of polymorphic, entry point obscuring (EPO) file infectors with IRC bot functionality) by my antivirus Avira Antivir Personal Edition (which is actually free thats why I’m using it instead of downloading cracked versions of well known anti-viruses as I hate piracy ). Till date it has detected every virus (even if it wasn’t one ) which came in contact with my PC but yesterday was that unfortunate day when I had turned it off for some dire reasons and thanks to this generous virus the antivirus program itself got infected.

As far as McAfee claims, this virus when executed injects it’s code into running processes and open a backdoor on compromised machine at port 80 (HTTP) but uses it for IRC communication. So, now I know what happened to my PC as my antivirus was detecting every running EXE file as a virus.

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