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Nasty Nyxem Bomb Ticks Away
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-01-23
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The Nyxem.E virus continues to spread, with reports hitting over half a million infections as of Saturday and averaging about 800 hits every fifteen minutes or so. The payload is slated to drop on Friday, February 3rd and is it ever nasty.
As we mentioned here last week, the themes surrounding this particular worm involve adult content sites and as a result, the worm is also being called the Kama Sutra virus. Based on what virus vendors are reporting, users will be shouting profane expletives when it goes off too.
The Nyxem is programmed to overwrite all of the files on computers it infects on February third according to F-Secure. The worm is a mass-mailing worm and can be spread using remote shares as well. It cuts into security related software by disabling it and appears similar to Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi also discovered recently.
The best advice on this is not to visit the involved sites and disregard the appropriate emails. The subject lines could include the following:
The Best Videoclip Ever School girl fantasies gone bad A Great Video
Fuckin Kama Sutra pics Arab sex DSC-00465.jpg give me a kiss
*Hot Movie* Fw: Funny :) Fwd: Photo
Fwd: image.jpg Fw: Sexy Re:
Fw: Fw: Picturs Fw: DSC-00465.jpg
Word file eBook.pdf the file
Part 1 of 6 Video clipe You Must View This Videoclip! Miss Lebanon 2006
Re: Sex Video My photos
Just delete the emails. Don't visit the sites, don't open the attached files, just say no. This nasty one, when executed, copies itself in multiple locations, overwrites the registry key and causes mayhem. Please avoid it.
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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