Requiem for Se and De

I would not know, but one friend of mine who actively contacts me told me about the virus on May 16th . There was a mailing list to the users of this social network with some text and a link, following which the user was infected.

If you are interested in reading what the users themselves say, you can follow this link .

My skepticism quickly evaporated when Nod32 detected “Win32 / Rovud.C” in the "\ application data \ vkontakte \ svc.exe" folder.

But stories like these:
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Inna Knyazkova wrote
May 23, 2008 at 4:50 pm
Nothing funny (((I was the first who really suffered from a virus yesterday ... I had an incorrect date in the BIOS - 25 numbers (((and the virus was completely demolished, while I understood for 15 minutes what was happening (Until yesterday I didn’t read about it I did not hear. I killed both disk C and disk D

... cause emotion rather than fear. Especially against the background of such ads:

Sergey 2TAHXAMOH Petrov wrote
May 21, 2008 at 5:21 pm
This thing on the 25th of every month at 10 am on the computer screen the following message will be displayed (spelling is preserved):
Pavel Durov Working with “VKontakte.Ru” you have never raised your rating and therefore we have not received any profit from you. For this, your computer will be destroyed!
If you contact the police, you will greatly regret it!

At the same time, the removal of all files from the C: disk will begin.

Hysteria and panic.

Personally, I see two options:

* Either this is really a provocation on the part of competitors, and a desire to denigrate the reputation of VKontakte by exposing them as an insecure site.
* Black PR, with a happy ending, as all users were cured of the evil virus formatting se (and de?) Drives.

Both look rather strange, but against the background of big money that revolves around social networks like VKontakte, this is quite real.

Who thinks what?

UPD: Another version of the Kaspersky anti-virus PR can be pulled behind the ears.
UPD2: kutsy kutsy already wrote about this