PETALING JAYA: Anti-virus companies have issued alerts over a new computer virus worm that not only spreads itself through a user's e-mail programme but may also steal random data in an infected computer and send it to the creator of the virus.
The new worm, Mimail.C, is an advanced variation of the original Mimail that first appeared in August, said Sevaraja Velautham, managing director of AVP (SEA) Sdn Bhd, the local distributor of anti-virus solutions from Russia's Kaspersky Labs.
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