Oh shit!
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From: "Che" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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Sent: Thursday, February 02, 2006 4:12 AM
Subject: Re: audyssey: Stay Safe
> 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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