Follow us on

Listen to Long Island's #1 Rock Station Online!

recent on-air advertisers

Now Playing

102.3 WBAB
Listen to Long ...

Posted: 5:24 p.m. Friday, Sept. 10, 2010

Beware New E-Mail Worm 

By Webmaster

In this day and age it's hard to believe that anyone would open an attachment or clink on a link in an e-mail that they were unsure of, but it happens. So be careful because there is a new fast-spreading e-mail worm circulating. It's the first large outbreak of this type in nearly a decade.

The worm appears in e-mail messages with the subject "Here you have," and contains what seems to be a link to an Adobe PDF file. In fact the link takes the victim to a Web page hosted on the members.multimania.co.uk domain that then tries to download a screensaver (.scr) file. If the user agrees to install the file, he is then infected by the worm, which mails itself to his e-mail contacts. The body of the e-mail typically says something like, "Hello... this is the document I told you about, you can find it here." Because the worm is spreading via contact lists, the e-mail often comes from someone the victim knows.

he worm is similar to the ILoveYou and Anna Kournikova worms, which spread in 2000 and 2001, and is a type of malware that has not been a major problem since around 2002, according to David Cowings, a senior manager with Symantec Security Response. "It looks like we've had a resurgence of mass-mailing worms," he said.
In fact, "Here you have" is the same subject line used by the Anna Kournikova worm.

 
 
 

© 2013 Cox Media Group. By using this website, you accept the terms of our Visitor Agreement and Privacy Policy, and understand your options regarding Ad ChoicesAdChoices.

Rovi Portions of Content Provided by Rovi Corporation. © 2012 Rovi Corporation