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Kama Sutra Showing The Love
John Stith
Staff Writer
2006-02-02
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The Kama Sutra worm is dropping its load tomorrow and you better have your security updated. This worm isn't a scammer or a phisher or a spammer. It's a destroyer. It's not looking to access your information for credit card numbers. It's looking to wipe out files from your hard drive, not all of them but enough to make it annoying certainly.
What makes this interesting is reports of damage from this worm also called NyxemD and a variety of other things. F-Secure reported on Tuesday of some computer being hit early. The reason is the worm is slated to drop its load on February 3rd, tomorrow. For computers not set with the proper time, problems could ensue, meaning your DOC/XLS/PPT/ZIP/RAR/PDF/MDB files are all vulnerable.
The worm currently resides on over 300,000 computers, mostly in Turkey, India and Peru. Many have been disinfected but many haven't Thousands of PCs will get spanked on Friday. Keep in mind too though that if users have their security updated, it shouldn't be a problem.
Some other interesting details of the worm include the fact it will hit all the lettered drives on a PC, including USB ports. F-Secure said this:
We made a few additional tests with the worm in our test network environment. When the payload is activated, the worm enumerates all logical drives and damages files on them in a loop. So it should damage files on all drives that have a drive letter, including network drives. That's the theory. In practice, however, the worm failed to do so on network drives, at least in our test environment. Files on local and removable drives (including USB memory) were damaged by the payload.
Keep in mind, this virus isn't as widespread as most but it is nasty, quite destructive. Make sure you don't get caught with your hard drive down and update your security.
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John is a staff writer for SecurityProNews covering cyber security.
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