Any info on '2016' infection anybody?

I have heard that a virus/malware form of some sort is getting past many AV apps & making the infected computer display the date as January the first (or some other month & day) 2016. Does anyone know much about this? From what I can gather from some sources SUPERAntiSpyware can detect & remove this malware. Has anyone any experience of this malware or know more about it?

 

Hi

Virus.Win32.Blakan.2016

Aliases
Virus.Win32.Blakan.2016 (Kaspersky Lab) is also known as: Win32.Blakan.2016 (Kaspersky Lab), W95/Blakan.dr (McAfee), W95.Blakan.2016 (Symantec), Win95.BlackJack.2016 (Doctor Web), W95/Kante-2016 (Sophos), Win32/Blakan.2016.dr (RAV), PE_KANTE.A (Trend Micro), W32/Blakan.2016.B (H+BEDV), W32/Blakan.2016 (FRISK), Win95:Kante (ALWIL), Win32.Blakan.2016 (SOFTWIN), W32.Blakan (ClamAV), W32/Blakan.A (Panda), Win32/Blakan.2016 (Eset)
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Geri

 

OK, thanks for the info Geri. I take it that it is a virus then & not a worm or other form of malware? How is it infecting computers, email attachments, drive-by or other?

 

Hi
It seems that P2P file sharing is a major cause,
I have not ran into a case of it yet.

Geri

 

OK thanks. I have heard rumours of it infecting computers as a drive-by. Unfortunately, as the Net sometimes acts as a giant grapevine of rumours it is difficult to be sure. No need to panic I suppose...