A new worm has been detected which targets users who are using Chinese-language versions of Windows 2000 according to an article at Computerworld.

Symantec Corp named the worm as Wecori. Kapersky Lab and Microsoft dubbed it as MS08-067.g. Kevin Haley of Symantec confirmed that this worm is different from the one that was patched on October 23.

He added that the worm tries to attack all the machines on the same subnet if it is successful on infecting a Windows PC.

Symantec notes that this is a very low risk problem.

Source: COMPUTERWORLD