First published: 14th August 2009
Sophos Senior Threat Researcher Paul Baccas has recently encountered two viruses that target AutoCAD: AL/Utax-A and AL/Logo-A. AutoCAD viruses were reported in 2005, but there has been little activity since. However, AL/Utax-A in particular shows malicious intent: creating new users.
Most anti-virus software has been updated to detect the viruses, and the AutoCAD developers, Autodesk are responding.