‘Here you have’ e-mail worm spreads quickly
September 10, 2010
Security experts warned Thursday of a fast-spreading e-mail worm, the first large outbreak of this type in nearly a decade.
The worm appears in e-mail messages with the subject “Here you have,” and contains what seems to be a link to an Adobe PDF file. In fact the link takes the victim to a Web page hosted on the members.multimania.co.uk domain that then tries to download a screensaver (.scr) file. If the user agrees to installing that file, he is then infected by the worm, which mails itself to his e-mail contacts.
[ Computerworld ]
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Comments (2)
by SkipErnst
I’m surprised that a worm that requires the user to click on a PDF attachment that instead links to a web page where you have to agree to download and install a screen saver would spread at all, let alone rapidly. Are people really still this uninformed?
by LaboriousCretin
LOL.ROFL. Cyber security is getting lax, and social variables are oldschool P. I bet they didn’t even arest anyone for this act. DHS,ICE,DOD,DOE,Ect.. drop the ball yet again, and seem to protect the criminal’s rather than the normal regular population. Go figure.:)