ZDNET: Anti Gypsy-Music Virus Welcomed By Victims

I thought I had read it all, but ZNET reports that some Romanians welcome the “socially useful” Antiman.A worm, which certainly brings an entirely new facet to the “good worm“ debate:

Romanian security firm BitDefender has revealed that after releasing signatures to protect its customers from a virus that deleted files from their computers containing gypsy music, it was inundated with letters of complaint from customers who wanted the virus to spread.

The virus, dubbed Antiman.A, was discovered at the end of April and duped users into executing its payload by pretending to contain news about three Romanian journalists that had been kidnapped. When run, the virus searched the victim's computer for files containing the names of Romanian gypsy music singers.

The last paragraph is truly priceless:

Last word went to a BitDefender customer that offered to keep the antivirus labs staff busy to try give the virus more time to spread: "I would have gotten all of you drunk just to make sure you didn't get the [detection] tool out… god bless the guy who created this virus."

The full article is here.