As I thought, this was reported last week and if you are dumb enough to click a
file or website you don't know then its your problem, this is the oldest trick
in the book, if not in existance.
Most of us I trust do not open any file, image, website or anything without
checking what the hell it is.
So just get smart and you won't get the virus, its that easy.
On this network, i have 2 local mail users.
Myself and my dad.
Probably will have to run my snooping software when he aint around, the guy
never deletes suspissious attachments, and he never opens them, but I have had
4-24 viruses in nonactive state on his system and he says he has killed the
message but not the file, double work if you ask me.
The other user is my brother, who is so paranoid that if someone told him to
delete the system32 folder in windows to kill a virus, he probably would.
So I think I am safe, I have ocational network users and they are not stupid.
Anyway its the 3rd of feb now, and I'm still ok.
I have not recieved any attachments, but loads of weird messages with said
subject lines, and I destroyed them.
Although waiding through 10 of these sucks.
At 10:12 p.m. 2/02/2006, you wrote:
> Below is a report from CNN on the worm coming out Friday.
> When you guys post about a virus, worm or whatever, it would be really
>helpful if you would post relevant info about it, instead of just saying
>there is a virus coming, so watch out.
> Cheers.
>
>ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- "There are a lot of people who are going to be
>very unhappy on the third of February," said Professor Merrick Furst from
>the Georgia
>Tech College of Computing.
>
>That's when the Kama Sutra computer worm will begin destroying critical
>files on infected computers. And hundreds of thousands of machines may have
>the
>worm lurking within their Windows operating system, ready to be unleashed on
>February 3 and the third of every month thereafter.
>
>Experts say Windows Office documents, Word documents, Excel spread sheets,
>and PDFs (portable document format) are among the files that will be
>"overwritten."
>That means the data will be changed and corrupted, and the original
>information will no longer be accessible.
>
>While files that have simply been deleted can sometimes be recovered;
>overwritten files are usually lost for good.
>
>This malicious software entices computer users with promises of sexy
>pictures, with e-mail subject lines ranging from "School girl fantasies gone
>bad" to
>"Hot Movie" to "Crazy illegal Sex!" and "Kama Sutra pics." (
>Watch how the worm seduces PC users -- 1:36)
>
>This worm is described as "old fashioned" in several ways.
>
>First, it relies on the oldest trick in the book, a computer user's desire
>to see nasty pictures, to get them to take an action.
>
>"With the Kama Sutra worm, this is a traditional style worm, meaning that it
>takes user interaction in order to become infected; someone has to double
>click
>on a file attachment, and then it does some type of malicious behavior, such
>as, in this case destroying a folder or a file," said Alain Sergile, a
>security
>expert at Internet Security Systems (ISS) in Atlanta.
>
>Because the worm's destructive payload is delayed until the third of the
>month, many users may have infected their machines, but because neither
>dirty pictures
>nor computer problems resulted, simply forgotten that they ever clicked on
>the attachment.
>
>The worm, which also goes by the names Blackworm, Blackmal, and Nyxem, has
>been spreading since January 16. It is capable of infecting Windows XP,
>Windows
>2000, Windows 98 and Windows ME operating systems.
>
>"This is a really damaging worm. This is not one of those worms that is
>interested in having access to your machine for purposes later on. This worm
>will
>really damage your machine," Georgia Tech's Furst said.
>
>Furst says the worm has spread to a lot of military addresses on the
>Internet (.mil), but mostly to ISPs (Internet Service Providers), meaning
>most of those
>infected are probably home users.
>
>The computer security company LURHQ reports more than 600,000 machines
>around the world have been infected.
>
>With a little time before the third of the month trigger, most Windows users
>still have the ability to cleanse their computer of Kama Sutra before any
>information
>is destroyed.
>
>Some antivirus software can eliminate the virus. Users should make sure
>their antivirus and antispyware software is up to date and to scan their
>computers
>for malicious programs that may have been surreptitiously installed on their
>machines.
>
>However, not all antivirus programs are effective. Problems running
>antivirus software may be one sign your computer has been infected. Joe
>Stewart of LURHQ
>says like many recent worms, Kama Sutra attempts to disable antivirus
>software when it is attacking a machine.
>
>And even for home computer users who have never taken such precautions
>before, security experts say now would be a good time to back up your most
>important
>data, like financial information and family photographs, to CDs, DVDs, zip
>drives, or an external hard drive that you know is worm and virus free.
>
>Unlike a lot of malware that exploits vulnerabilities in the Windows
>operating system, there is no "patch" that can be downloaded to ward off
>Kama Sutra.
>
>"This is something that is not inherent in the operating system," Sergile
>said.
>
>"Unfortunately, there is no way to patch user ignorance, and the way this
>virus propagates is through user ignorance," he said.
>
>Sergile also says home users need to be aggressive about questioning e-mail
>messages and attachments, even if it appears they are coming from
>colleagues,
>friends, or relatives. Many e-mail viruses spread by forwarding themselves
>to everyone in a user's e-mail address book.
>
>"So while you might think it is coming from cousin Alice, most likely cousin
>Alice is not going to send you something that says 'Hey look at these
>pictures
>with naked people.' So that should be your first clue that a virus is
>propagating and you'd be well served to call cousin Alice to let her know
>that she
>is [unknowingly] sending out this type of e-mail," Sergile said.
>
>
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