The computer users have to protect their systems from yet another type of virus known as Flame malware
. Kaperskys Vitlay Kamlyuk is providing various details about this virus to educate the consumers about it. Kaspersky detected Flame in 2010. Since then it has been conducting research about it which is revealed now. The detecting of this virus by Kaspersky Labs was completely by chance, says Kamlyuk. UNs International telecommunication has assigned Kaspersky a job to find out the entirely new type of virus that has been bothering the hard drives throughout the area of Middle East. This is the set up behind the discovery of Flame malware by Kaspersky. And this has infact became very much interesting than the reason for what they actually started the search.
Kamlyuk says that Flame is a very dangerous type of malware that weighs nearly 20 MG. The research is being done on this package and the results are very slow to be uncovered. The degree of sophistication is much greater as compared to other viruses which were thought to be highly dangerous before uncovering the Flame malware. The Stuxnet attack that spoiled and interrupted the nuclear facilities of Iran during last year is nowhere in comparison to this and it weighed only a few hundred kilobytes. The intensity of the potential threat it poses is making Kaspersky think that it is developed by government scientists as the creation needs very big brains. However, the thing that nobody knows is the government of which country created this.
Flame malware steals the information of the host computer. It has collected so much of information from the infected systems so far and it has really become a very difficult thing to untangle the puzzle about the destination of this information. Though dozens of control servers have been located the question remained unanswered with the domains associated with them being registered with fake identities. Not just that the Flame thefts away the data from hard drive, screenshots and keystrokes, it also makes use of the microphones and Bluetooth radio of the system to collect even more data. However, the collection of large data has become a drawback of Flame because it made it necessary for the Flame to delete itself from the infected system to save the bandwidth. This is again adding up to the complexity of the issue and making it even more difficult to crack.