Cellery Computer Virus
A new virus dubed Cellery-A (W32 / Cellery-A). The game hides as a playable version of the classic game Tetris. The Cellery worm, which gets its name from a message it displays saying ´Chancellery´, makes changes to Windows settings to ensure that it automatically runs when the operating system starts up. While the Tetris-like arcade game is running, the worm plays a MIDI music tune, and searches for other network drives and attached computers to also try and infect. Cellery Virus puts up the Tetris game as a smokescreen while it tries to hop from computer to computer across your network.
The virus does no damage to machines but heavily infected networks could slow down as scanning traffic builds. Productivity may suffer too if users spend time playing Tetris.
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