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Microsoft "Swen" Worm Squiggles Into Sight

Posted by timothy on from the mmm-wriggling dept.

greenhide writes "As forecast in this story, a new Microsoft worm has indeed wriggled to the surface. The W32.Swen's claim to fame is its professional looking email advertisement that pretends to be a fake Microsoft patch. Earlier viruses have made the claim, but none of them looked this good. It appears to have infected over 1.5 million machines. "

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  1. Oh yeah... by JoeLinux · · Score: 5, Interesting

    At work, they have duped over 5 of my collegues...even AFTER the email went out saying that it was going around. Well, Make an OS that any idiot can use, and only idiots will use it, I guess...

    My problem with all these worms is that it doesn't do anything after it propogates, so no one will really care except bandwidth-concious IT people. It should send itself out, then erase all the FAT tables on a hard drive.

    Or deltree the c:\winnt or c:\windows directory (or both).

    That would REALLY piss people off, who would demand that they do something to make sure that not happen again...like...I dunno...Linux or OSX?

    Just a thought...