Finnish data security company F-Secure has reported that a virus called Small.DAM, referred to as "Storm Worm" was sent to hundreds of thousands of email addresses globally and is continuing to spread very quickly. Representatives from F-Secure have said "the Small.DAM (Storm-Worm) we posted on earlier spread very fast during the night, Helsinki time. The heavy seeding through spam was quickly obvious on our tracking screens. The worm was spread throughout the world very rapidly." The origin of the Trojan virus is currently unknown.
F-Secure indicated that those who receive any of the following lines in the subject line should be particularly cautious:
News source: DailyTech
F-Secure indicated that those who receive any of the following lines in the subject line should be particularly cautious:
- 230 dead as storm batters Europe.
- A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and...
- British Muslims Genocide
- Naked teens attack home director.
- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza...
- Full Clip.exe
- Full Story.exe
- Read More.exe
- Video.exe
News source: DailyTech
:sigh: And how do you think the email got to your webmail's email server? Magic? No, it was probably POP3. If the virus filtering at the ISP is letting the virus through, what chance do you think your client-side AV scaning will have? This isn't a exploitable flaw in POP3 that's letting the virus propagate, it's idiots oping an untrustworthy *.exe that's the problem.
It makes little difference to me if you access your e-mail from a web-based interface rather than a client-side app, however; I generaly think that people who use web-based e-mail are a little more likely to get viruses than people who use e-mail apps becasue if you weren't smart enough to figure out why email apps are usefull then your probably also not smart enough to figgure out what's a trustable exe and what's not. For your sake, I hope I'm wrong.
Webmail goes through the same server as pop3, imap or any other protocol. I guess you're one of the "OMG you mean that box under my desk is made of Windows?!?!?" people :p
Despite the fact the OP said it in a stupid way, I see his point - most big webmail providers have AV solutions that check the files before letting you anywhere near them (this is true for GMail/Hotmail, not sure about elsewhere).
Grab some popcorn and enjoy the show.
;-)
Grab some popcorn and enjoy the show.
;-)
You just keep saying that. I'll be there to shove it in your face when someone writes an OS-X version of this virus.
And i'll be right behind you waving my Linux CD at you creating a nice calm breeze
its theoretically like saying hey... the kids didn't know about AIDS, so heck, they deserve it.
sure this not really the same, but the same logic would apply there.
-fm
Unless they have one of those eMac's. All the parts are in the monitor...
E-mail subject: "Chinese missile shot down Russian Satellite". Kasperky killed it.
Thankfully Outlook 2002 and later blocks the attachments from being opend
I have my computer on the desk, and still i dont need to be warned... i have an iMac, and I also run xp, but actually anti-virus software updates automatically nowadays... so a warning in the news might be uninteresting to lots of users...
-fm
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