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New worm aimed to music sharers....A new kind of malicious software is aimed at music-loving Windows users. The new malware, hits those who download music files on peer-to-peer networks, and inserts links to dangerous web pages within ASF (Advanced Systems Format) media files."The possibility of this has been known for a little while but this is the first time we've seen it done," said David Emm, senior technology consultant for security vendor Kaspersky Lab.Advanced Systems Format is a Microsoft-defined container format for audio and video streams that can also hold arbitrary content such as images or links to web resources.If a user plays an infected music file, it will launch Internet Explorer and load a malicious web page which asks the user to download a codec, a well-known trick to get someone to download malware. Full Article here -> http://www.techworld.com/news/index....&NewsID=102189