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• It terminates its own execution if it detects that it is being executed in a virtual machine environment, such as VMWare or VirtualPC.

It captures certain information entered or saved by the user, with the corresponding threat to privacy:

• Keystrokes, in order to obtain information for accessing online banking services, passwords and other confidential information.

It causes a loss of productivity in the local network to which the compromised computer belongs:

• It generates a large amount of network activity and consumes bandwidth.

It reduces the security level of the computer:

• It opens one or more ports to allow remote access to the computer and takes action that compromises user confidentiality.
• It notifies the attacker that the computer has been compromised and is ready to be used maliciously.