Windows porn worm spreading fast

 

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Windows porn worm spreading fast - vnunet.com Jan 19 2006 1:50AM GMT [Computer security news - news headlines from around the web.]

"Companies should educate their users to practise safe computing, including 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 at 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." Once activated, the worm seeks to shut down all firewall and antivirus software and to harvest email addresses from the host computer. It then emails itself out using its own SMTP engine, and will seek to update itself periodically from the web."

~ Source: Iain Thomson, vnunet.com 18 Jan 2006

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