So my cousin who doesn't know any better was trying to get movies and ended up with a file infected with WMA:WIMAD[drp], or rather, from what I could tell, was created for the express purpose of spreading the virus.
He tried running it from his macbook and got the message about needing a windows media codec for his .avi file (no redirection was complete, we were both offline), but it wasn't the usual system message imitation. The video ran the Universal logo theme and the message was a bright white text cg plastered over it, and I assume that the huge filesize is faked or that it's a long running video of the universal logo as a still image (once the animation and music complete).
Now I didn't know much about this virus until today, but the fact that a video that needs a codec...well...ran at all, and that the message was part of the video raised hundreds of red flags in my head.
In any case he jammed his flash drive into my pc anyway to see if I could run it, so I immediately ran avast on it instead doing my best to explain why it didn't make sense. Saw it was infected with this virus and promptly removed it, telling him he was duped.
In any case coming from a video background I found the execution somewhat amusing...
In any case I was wondering if anyone with a better understanding of the virus could tell me if it has any threat to my PC? From what I could gather it doesn't do much unless it successfully downloads further malware but didn't find any solid info on it's replication behaviors or other ways it might spread. I've yet to do a boot scan and wondered if it's a necessary step in dealing with this. The file was only ever on the flash drive and did not seem to infect the other media files, or my own.
Though I don't expect to encounter any unknown viruses soon, I was wondering if this would also be the correct forum for a user to report suspicious activity or a confirmed new virus?