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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. First Post by AlphaSys · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Only took two days toi make it to slashdot? You guys are going soft.

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    1. Re:First Post by ichimunki · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Well, they rejected my early Friday morning submission of this for some reason. I pointed out nicely that the worm exploits the most vulnerable weakness of Microsoft Windows: the user. I also pointed out that I'd gotten lots of these already (but the volume seems to have dropped off pretty quick, too-- not sure if someone upstream from my mailbox started filtering or what). *sigh* :)

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