A patched worm’s activity grew to significant levels over weekend according to Microsoft researchers. It can infect other computers that are connected in a network.

The worms deletes system restore points that were created by users on their computers and it also tries to contact sites such as Yahoo and MSN to obtain the current date. It also attempts to download other malicious files to a user’s computer.

Both businesses and individuals are affected by this worm according to the researchers.

The researchers said in a blog post that, “It is not that the malware authors care so much about the computer as they want to make sure that other malware will not take it over too.”

Source: Channel Web