Published: 13 January 2000 14:11 GMT
A computer virus aimed solely at Windows 2000 (Win2000) has been unearthed by Finnish security company, F-Secure Corporation.
The virus is called Win2k.Inta or Win2000.Install, and does not function under older Windows operating systems (OS). F-Secure said the virus has not yet been discovered in the wild, and it is not thought to be damaging to data.
However F-Secure said the key risk it poses is its compatibility with Win2000. Mikko Hypponen, manager of anti-virus research at F-Secure, said Win2000 is now vulnerable to being targeted easily by virus writers.
The new OS, which will be on sale from February, has only recently finished beta-testing and was shipped to manufacturing in December.
For more information on the virus go to http://www.f-secure.com .
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