Do you believe in DJ virus
A new virus has been discovered that pays tribute to dance DJ Marco V.
Order.A drops the lyrics from the song "Godd" by Marco V to the hard drive in a file called Chaos.txt, signing it Xevion. Xevion is not unknown in the virus world. Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos, said: 'We believe he is an active member of the computer underground, and may have written other viruses. There is no concrete information about his land of origin however.'
He added: 'This is not the first time DJs and viruses have mixed. In January 2003 part-time DJ Simon Vallor was sentenced to two years for infecting 27,000 computers with a virus he had written. Xevion appears to be a fan of Marco V's combination of trance and techno - it makes a change from the typical view of a virus writer as a lanky heavy metal fan I suppose.'
Order.A affects Windows computers and is an executable file, that the author may make available disguised as a tempting download or similar. If run it scans the system for executable files and places them in the Fonts folder and overwrites the original file with itself.
