Clever New Windows Worm

freakboy303 sent in linkage to a new worm that will no doubt be cluttering our inboxes soon. Clever bits include running its own SMTP service to increase chance of success, as well as using a bunch of spaces to disguise the true extension of the executable. No doubt countless copycats will soon follow and our inboxes will be cluttered by countless copies of the thing. Not that there's a problem with windows security.

Comments

Without Outlook?

[krony]

"The worm utilises it's own SMTP engine so it does not depend on Outlook for e-mail sending."

Not even a virus can depend on Outlook anymore...

:-P

Re:Am I the only one...?

[Tackhead]

> Are the people I converse with in email just cooler/smarter than everyone else

At the risk of stroking the collective /. ego, yeah, they are.

Canonical example - someone who got Sircammed at work, came to me and said they were having trouble opening up this attachment someone had sent them, and they wondered why someone sent it to them in the first place.

I did my best "All your base!" voice and said "I send you this file to have your advice!"

Cow orker said "Yeah, hey, how did you know that? Are you reading my mail?"

Another admin and I spent the next hour disinfecting 0wn3d box3n from other cow orkers who had done the same thing.

Looks like a hoax

[sphix42]

I didn't see any misspelled words in the sample email at that link...this is an obvious hoax.

Is a 6ft-deep pothole in front of your car "news?"

[Tsar]

For us Windows users, reports of new security issues seem to come as often as potholes on an Arkansas highway. Like the potholes, looking for the next one isn't all that interesting or entertaining, but we still have to try to avoid them or at least minimize their impact.

"Net access: $20/mo. -- Electricity for computer: $20/mo. -- Reaching the 50 Karma cap: Priceless"
I'm at the karma cap, and I've been oscillating between 47 and 50 for some time. Does anyone else in that situation agree with my Modest Karma Proposal?

Re:problem with the users

[Mike Schiraldi]

I wonder if, say, construction workers, when building a shopping mall, say stuff like, "Man, we have to put railings up? Come on, what kind of idiot would just walk off the edge and plummet to the floor below? Stupid users."

"What? Circuit breakers? What sort of moron would overload a circuit? Who needs circuit breakers? Stupid users."