Vulnerabilities Sites are strongly encouraged to take appropriate measures to protect vulnerable systems and apply vendor supplied patches. We receive many daily reports of virus infections and propagation on the Internet.
Hosts continue to be infected by well-known viruses.
It is important for users to keep anti-virus software up to date and scan files on a regular basis to prevent this type of activity. The worm also creates some entries in the registry and copies itself to the file 'winsvrc.vxd'. Errors in the registry entries which are created will cause an error dialog box to appear when a user attempts to run other .EXE files. This worm does not appear to damage files based on the reports we have received, and the information we've gathered. More information about the Navidad worm, and instructions on how to remove it from an infected system can be found at your anti-virus vendor's website.