There were several new variants of Virut parasitic infector discovered in last days. We've added detection routines for this threat in last program update 7.5.484 so please update your AVG. Win32/Virut is polymorphic file infector which infects PE files with .exe extension.

This worm spreads by e-mail as an attachment or as a hyperlink in ICQ message. On the infected computer virus harvests e-mail addresses or ICQ contacts to which it sends its copies. Virus can download and install other unwanted programs from the Internet.

Exploit.ANI

There is a new breed of threat against a vulnerability known for over a year in Cursor and Icon Format Handling described in MS05-002. Microsoft fixed this vulnerability already but the fix wasn`t complete. Affected systems are Windows NT, 2000, XP, 2003 and Vista. AVG detects all known variants of this exploit as Exploit.ANI.

BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and .GBC

Trojan horses BackDoor.Generic3.GBB and BackDoor.Generic3.GBC are almost similar. Both of them exploiting MS Windows Server Service vulnerability described in Microsoft Security Bulletin MS06-040 for it`s spreading.