[ news_security_news ] The Kama Sutra Worm Making Rounds
John Stith Staff Writer
2006-01-18
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Worms come and worms go but they never leave for good. A new one is making the rounds and it's utilizing the ever-popular naughty side of the Internet to spread its unseemliness.
Sophos reported on the new worm that's begun working its way into the computers everywhere. Sophos said reports of the worm W32/Nyxem-D first started flowing on Monday. Some of the subject lines are quite colorful. Sophos published a few:
*Hot Movie*
Arab sex DSC-00465.jpg
Fuckin Kama Sutra pics
Fw: SeX.mpg
Fwd: Crazy illegal Sex!
give me a kiss
Miss Lebanon 2006
Part 1 of 6 Video clipe
School girl fantasies gone bad
The Best Videoclip Ever
"Companies should educate their users to practise safe computing - that includes never opening unsolicited email attachments and discouraging the sending and receiving of joke files, pornography and funny photographs and screensavers," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer, but they could be putting their entire company's data at risk."
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