Systems of the Belgian federal public service Finances, lwa n have since Thursday, dealing with a computer virus. It would be an old but fast spreading virus that the systems slow and late failure.
The federal public service Finaniciën’d have trouble with the spread of the Sality.gene-virus under control. In addition to the service would control and ontvangstkantoren and administratiediensten in the whole country with it, suffer. Computers would slow down or breakdown. Sality.gene dates back to 2007 and search local, remote and external drives on portable executable files to infect. Possible new variants of this virus.
Data from Belgian taxpayers would not intervene in the proceedings. It would, therefore, also a relatively harmless virus, says Eddy Knowingly, beveiligingsexpert of G Data against the Newspaper. However, according to him, it to an old virus and indicates that, in its opinion, to think about the security in Finance. The staff of the public is asked to not use the usb sticks or external hard drives to use.