Symantec Safety Response experts have just analyzed the very first known 64-bit devices for malware threats - W64.Rugrat.3344. The risk-free virus is not spread widely ; In spite of this, it's the very first recognized effective attack a 64-bit Windows executables threat. This danger does not impact the 32-bit executable, not in 32-bit Windows platforms. It 's just for 64-bit Windows working techniques.
W64.Rugrat.3344 together with the following characteristics :
- The danger of the immediate impact on plan execution (direct-action infector), which , once implemented, right away from memory.
- the IA64 ( Intel Architecture) assembly code written in IA64 executable files can be contaminated , but does not contain . dll files.
- could be infected with the virus inside the very same folder of files and subfolders in all paperwork.
Symantec Safety Response senior director Vincent Weafer stated: Influence . At existing, we do not think the menace of large-scale imitation ,
Office 2010 Professional, mainly because only with advanced technical understanding to total the preparing of assembly code .
W64.Rugrat.3344 is a danger degree . ( five being one of the most serious risk .) Symantec Safety Response encourages users to update virus definitions from the threat of destruction.