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Cramps in Kama Sutra
Well, you don’t always need a Super Bowl commercial to get your message out. For years we’ve been telling people, “Don’t download file attachments” unless you’re 100% sure they’re safe. It appears the message has gotten through.
This week all the buzz was about the Kama Sutra-MyWife-Blackmal worm which was set to corrupt files on computers around the world on the 3rd of every month. I was even interviewed by my local news station. They didn’t air the part where I said, I wasn’t really worried about this threat. What a surprise! According to recent news reports, Kama Sutra fizzled and the big story now is now little damage was reported.
What I said in the Blog on Tuesday,
“Users will have to physically download a file which is disguised as a zip file and run it.”
Users are starting to get educated and all our ranting and raving is getting through. Spyware Warrior Suzi Turner also brought to my attention, a report by the University of Washington that spyware has significantly declined. I would like to think I could retire from fighting spyware but I fear we’ll all keep busy for many years to come.
posted by Unknown | 10:35 AM
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Well there was at least one IT pro who wasn't paying attention:
http://www.ibnlive.com/article.php?id=4847§ion_id=11
I don't think we will get the full impact of this worm until the end of the weekend or Monday.
Good find Temerc, for anyone having problems with the link the article says...
Nyxem.E hits 80,000 systems in India
"New Delhi: As many as 80,000 computer systems in India and about a million across the world have been estimated hit on Friday by the mass mailing worm 'Nyxem.E' that wrecks computers using the Windows operating system."
I guess we need global education as well.
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