The caterpillar, often referred to as the tomato hornworm, can be a major pest in gardens they get their name from a dark projection on their posterior end and their use of tomatoes as host plants. Manduca quinquemaculata, the five-spotted hawkmoth, is a brown and gray hawk moth of the family Sphingidae. Protoparce quinquemaculatus wirti Schaus, 1927.It is not known how many of them remained infected long enough to trigger the virus’s payload.

Over 300,000 unique IPs visited that site, suggesting that at least that many computers suffered infection. The virus visits a tracking Web page each time it infects a computer. It also attempts to disable antivirus programs by removing the registry entries that automatically run them and deleting the antivirus programs directly. It can destroy files on fixed and removable drives and tries, but fails, to affect data on network drives. On activation, the virus overwrites data files of many common types, including Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents ZIP and RAR archives and PDFs. It activates on the third day of each month the first known activation happened on February 3, 2006. It uses filenames that resemble those of legitimate Windows system files in an attempt to remain hidden. When first installed, it copies itself to the Windows and system directories. The virus removes antivirus programs from remote computers before attempting to infect them.

It is also known as Grew.a, Grew.b, Blackmal.e, Nyxem.e, Nyxem.d, Mywife.d, Tearec.a, CME-24, and Kama Sutra.īlackworm spreads mainly by sending infected email attachments, but also infects other computers by copying itself over network shares. For the animal, see Lumbriculus variegatus.īlackworm is an Internet worm discovered on Januthat infects several versions of Microsoft Windows.

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