Navidad Virus Not Spreading Cheer

Navidad, the Spanish word for Christmas, is not spreading the holiday cheer this Christmas season. The new virus packs a lot of heat, and can render your computer system completely useless via blocking all .exe execution. McAfee sent out the word last week, and ZDNet reported more on it today as computer users around the globe need to be warned about this very malicious virus.

The McAfee virus warning is as follows:

******* VIRUS ALERT - W32/Navidad@M ********

Dear McAfee.com Dispatch Subscriber:

W32/Navidad@M is an Internet worm that spreads using the
Windows email program Outlook. McAfee AVERT has given it a
risk assessment of MEDIUM-ON WATCH, due to a significant
increase in infection levels worldwide.

The email can come from addresses that you will recognize.
Attached is a file named NAVIDAD.EXE and when it is run, it
displays a dialog box entitled, "Error" which reads "UI". A
blue eye icon then appears in the system tray next to the
clock in the lower right corner of the screen, and a copy of
the worm is saved to the file "winsvrc.vxd" in the WINDOWS
SYSTEM directory.

If your PC becomes infected with the W32/Navidad@M worm, all
subsequent emails addressed to you will be responded to
automatically with an email from your address with the
W32/Navidad@M worm as an attachment.

Click here for detection and removal instructions:
-> http://clinic.mcafee.com/clinic/ibuy/campaign.asp?cid=1956

For more information visit the above link or read more on ZDNet.