Hi All,

  Computer experts have warned that a "super" virus has attacked more than 6
million personal computers and almost 1,000 corporate computers in China.


The Stuxnet cyberworm can break into computers and steal private
information, especially from industrial firms, sending it back to a server
in the United States, said Wang Zhantao, an engineer at the Beijing-based
Rising International Software Co. Ltd., a leading antivirus service producer
in China.

The super virus made use of a bug in Siemens auto-control systems used in
industrial manufacturing to skip the security check, Wang said.

The virus can copy itself and spread via U-disk in the network of a company
and government.

"Hackers may take control of a company's machinery run under computers
infected by Stuxnet, and give dangerous orders causing serious damage," he
said.

The company has developed software to kill the virus, which can be
downloaded for free from the company's official website, he added.

China had 420 million Internet users as of June, according to statistics
from China Internet Network Information Center.

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