The cleverly named virus W32. Deletemusic lives up to it's name by devouring any MP3s it finds on an infected computer. Files on your harddrive are not the only ones at risk as this virus will also destroy MP3s on attached devices as well. In fact, Info World reports that flashdrives are the primary medium used to spread the virus. Mac and Linux users need not be alarmed as this virus targets the virus friendly Windows varients (which some call a virus as well).

The source of the virus is not known but it was discovered on July 30th. Info World reports that the likely suspect for the source is not the RIAA but a teenager. One expert told them, "The authors of this worm are more likely to be teenage mischief makers than the organized criminal gangs we typically see authoring financially-motivated malware these days," Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for the security vendor Sophos told Info World.

Symantic labels the virus risk as "very low" and says that "W32.Deletemusic is a worm that copies itself to all drives on the compromised computer. It also deletes all ascap-extortion-removed files from the compromised computer." OS's that are vulnerable to this virus include Windows 98, Windows 95, Windows XP, Windows Me, Windows Vista, Windows NT, Windows Server 2003, Windows 2000.

More info on this virus can be found here http://news.yahoo.com/s/infoworld/20070802/tc_infoworld/90682