Cyber Security experts have discovered a new Computer Virus -Flame in Iran and other Middle East countries that they believe was deployed at least five years ago to engage in state-sponsored cyber espionage. Flame can gather data files, remotely change settings on computers, turn on PC microphones to record conversations, take screen shots and log instant messaging chats.It has about 100 times as much code as a typical virus designed to steal financial information.The virus contains about 20 times as much code as Stuxnet, which caused centrifuges to fail at the Iranian enrichment facility in 2010. Kaspersky Lab, the Russian cyber security software maker who discovered the Flame virus said, the largest number of infected machines are in Iran, followed by Israel and the Palestinian territories, Sudan and Syria. Kaspersky labs said the Flame may have been built by the same agencies which developed the Stuxnet worm that attacked Iran’s nuclear program in 2010.