A possible (and extremely nasty little buggger) has been found in the TMA2006 archives. This is only really relevant to those us with M$ Windoze boxes, but a danger nonetheless......you have been warned...
03/01/2007 11:50:41 1748 Sign of "Win95:CIH 1.x" has been found in "D:\Torrents\TMA2006-snapshot-E.zip\E\elementl.xm.zip\elementl.xm" file.
Win95:CIH 1.x
CIH is a virus which infects native Windows 95/98 applications (PE - Portable Executable files).
It is approximately 1Kbyte long. Virus has been found In the Wild in many countries all over the world. It installs itself into the memory, hooks file access calls and infects EXE files that are opened. It has very dangerous trigger: depending on the system date it operates with Flash BIOS ports and tries to overwrite Flash memory with "garbage". This is possible only if motherboard and chipset allows writing to Flash memory. Usually writing to Flash memory can be disabled by a DIP switch, however this depends on the motherboard design. Many modern motherboard cannot be protected by a DIP switch. Virus then overwrites data on all installed hard drives.
Three versions of this virus are known: CIH 1.2 and 1.3 activate the trigger routine on April 26th only, while the version 1.4 is able to do the damage on 26th of any month. CIH stores itself in the "holes" between the PE sections so the file length remains the same.
