Our IT staff passed this one along - hopefully it has no affect on you and your business (it seems to have been mostly infecting Latin America):
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/06/21/autocad_worm/
As stated in the article,
"The worm, dubbed ACAD/Medre.A, steals files and sends them to email accounts located in China. ESET said it had worked with Chinese ISP Tencent, the Chinese National Computer Virus Emergency Response Center and Autodesk – the creator of AutoCAD – to stop the harvesting of drawings by blocking email accounts associated with relaying stolen data... ESET has released a free stand-alone cleaner utility to aid in the clean-up of infected systems.
AutoCAD malware strains are rare but not unprecedented. For example an AutoCAD virus surfaced in 2009.
More details on the AutoCAD worm attack can be found in a blog post by Eset"
Here is that more detailed blog post:
http://blog.eset.com/2012/06/21/acadmedre-10000s-of-autocad-files-leaked-in-suspected-industrial-espionage
-joe
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