What Is Christmas Disease?

Christmas viruses often send poisonous emails or links under the guise of blessings and love words. The Christmas virus "Navidad" generally uses "NAVIDAD.EXE" as the file name and spreads it in the form of email attachments or through chat software such as QQ and MSN. send. Once the computer is infected with this virus, it will automatically rewrite the Windows registry, change the link of executable programs with the extension .EXE, and cause most programs on the computer system to fail to run.

Christmas virus

Holiday has become

According to analysis by Tencent Anti-Virus Lab, a large number of malicious programs have recently spread on social platforms under the name of "Christmas". Among them is a computer lock screen extortion disguised as a "Christmas gift"

When the infected attachment is running, a dialog box will appear with the error message "UI." The next blue eye icon will appear next to the clock icon in the system status bar (in the lower right corner of the computer screen). The

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"Christmas" virus

Reason for inclusion: Hazard equivalent to CIH virus

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Virus description: This virus can not only delete files, but also destroy the rewritable BIOS on the computer's motherboard. Since this new virus only hit on December 25, it is also known as the "Christmas" virus. Computers using Windows 95, Windows 98, or Windows NT as operating systems may be infected with the "Christmas" virus. Once infected, this virus can destroy the CMOS memory, overwriting the data of all files in all drives, and then destroy the rewritable BIOS in the same way as the CIH virus.

Christmas Macro Virus 1.0

Reason for inclusion: Christmas variant of macro virus

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Virus description: The virus will modify Word's files, tools, and forms to "Christmas" and other words. Another W97M_Lys_Kovick, which will occur on Christmas Day, will infect Microsoft Word template files. Once a netizen opens and is infected, a dialogue "The Lord Is Father ... Jesus my savior" will appear. When the PE_KRIZ.3740 virus attacks, it will destroy the CMOS setting data, write the files in the disk into junk data, and imitate the destruction mode of the CIH virus to destroy the computer's flash BIOS.

QQ Christmas Worm

Reason for inclusion: The wide range of influences and the number of users affected can be called the most Christmas virus

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Virus description: The virus sends information through QQ to entice users to click. Once the user clicked to download and run the specified file, the virus broke out. The "QQ Christmas worm" virus is also used by malicious websites to modify the user's homepage. Once the user opens Internet Explorer, he will automatically link to this website. The virus also modifies the browser homepage and ends a number of security software processes. In addition, QQ Christmas Bug will also download and install the cracked restore wizard main program, causing losses in Internet cafes and computer rooms.