On the heels of Nopir, Whiter.F has emerged

Malware creators seem to have started a battle against piracy on the Internet. After recently reporting the appearance of the Nopir worms, whose aim is to deleted all of the MP3 and COM files from the computer, leaving a message to the user of the affected computer, this time, PandaLabs informs that a Trojan called Whiter.F has emerged, a malware that deletes all the files form the hard disk of the affected computer. This new malware variant, like most Trojans, cannot spread on its own. It spreads through traditional mediums, such as floppy disks, CD-ROMs, email messages with attached files, Internet downloads, FTP, IRC channels, peer-to-peer (P2P) file sharing networks, FTP, etc. Once installed in a computer, it creates a text file called WXP in the root directory of the users computer. This file contains the phrase You did a piracy, you deserve it, similar to the threats made by the creator of the Nopir worm.