Bulgaria Attacked by "Christmas Virus"

Society | December 16, 2004, Thursday // 00:00

Bulgaria is one of the most severely affected countries in the world with a Windows virus disguising itself as an electronic Christmas card.

The Zafi.D virus translates the Christmas greeting on its subject line into the language of the person receiving infected e-mail. It has already spread widely in South America, Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Hungary.

The virus plunders Microsoft Outlook for e-mail addresses and then uses mail-sending software to despatch itself across the web to new victims. To be infected users must open up the attachment travelling with the message, which bears the code for the malicious bug.

The virus' subject line says "Merry Christmas" and translates this into one of 15 languages depending of the final suffix of the e-mail address the infected message has been sent to.

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