Yet Another Windows Worm

kraksmoka writes "MSNBC is reporting that yet another active worm is taking over computers in 115 countries today. 'Antivirus companies were on high alert Thursday after the rapid spread of a new computer worm that includes particularly malicious snooping techniques. Bugbear.B, a variant of a worm released last year, installs keylogging software, back-door software, and in some cases even attempts to control infected computersâ(TM) modems. Some of the wormâ(TM)s functions are designed to specially target financial institutions.' Yummy!"

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[stratjakt]

All you zealots can point and go tee-hee.

But the fact remains, linux is such a minor part of the computing world that noone targets worms or viruses for it.

The day that linux worms run rampant is the day it becomes a successful desktop.

(and yeah, it can be done.. what you all have now is a false sense of security through obscurity)

One wise advise ...

[freaker_TuC]

... Don't use Outlook or any program that is for it's ways to exploit ...

I use The Bat and never had any virus entering my system. I don't start executables and if I receive a executable I mail back with the question what it is and if it is sure sent by that person in question.