It has just detected a new virus that takes as hostage to the computers, it captures all the filed documents coding them and it only liberates them in exchange for a recompense.
The virus extortioner was detected May 22, it indicated on Wednesday Symantec in its place in the net. This virus, a horse of Troya that enters to the computers, is capable of formatear the hard disk and to code all the texts that are. Then announces in the screen the sum that requests like recompense to liberate the documents: 200 dollars to recover the dear files.
The virus appears under the name of code pgpcoder that sends himself of the place Pretty Good Privacy (PGP), a sure and legal program of code. This first case was detected by Websense, a Californian company of filter in the web that already informed to the federal police of United States (FBI).