[pchelpers] Re: News:This worm is one quiet Storm

Hi John,

Sunday, October 14, 2007, 2:01:56 PM, you wrote:

JD> It's January of 2007. Email users around the world are receiving
JD> messages bearing the subject "230 dead as storm batters Europe".
JD> Attached to the email is a small program with an innocuous name
JD> such as "Full Story," "Read More," or "Click Here". If the
JD> recipient opens the attachment, it silently contacts a
JD> peer-to-peer network, which it uses to download and install a root
JD> kit. The root kit hides the malware and enables it to load into
JD> Windows automatically. Then program does something even more
JD> sinister...

Someone sent me the link to Bruce Schneier's article on the 8th, but I
just read it today; it's very interesting. The fact that no
anti-malware is able to definitively detect it is very disturbing. All
I can say is that I've glad that I'm using an OS that it doesn't
support (yet), and more glad that I'm using a non-Microsoft email
program, and even more glad that I'm not one of the brainless morons
who opens any email and attachment that shows up in the inbox.


JD> 
http://blogs.chron.com/techblog/archives/2007/10/is_this_worm_the_perfect_storm.html

There are links to other articles at the bottom of this page, which
are also interesting.

More evidence (in case anyone needs it) that anyone who opens spam
messages and/or unexpected attachments is a damn fool (and that's
putting it very politely).

-- 
Scott.



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