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Evaman Worm Attacks Email Servers
An anonymous reader writes "CoolTechZone is reporting that the mail servers of various popular email services such as Hotmail and Yahoo to be bogged down with a new worm, code-named Evaman.
The headings are common to the ones users encounter everyday in their inbox - "Failed Transaction" or "Delivery Failure". This worm has the potential to take control over Windows 95, 98, ME, 2000, XP, NT, and Windows Server 2003."
We should be OK. The virus requires people to open the attachement on the mail in order for it to work. So unless people are stupid enough to open attachements after we've been telling them for years and years and after countless virus plauges not to we should all be fine... .......
Oh God!! We're all DOOOOOMED!!!!!
May the Maths Be with you!
is that the mail(at least the variant that I receieved) has a fake little message about the attatchment being scanned for viruses. Are people that gullible and/or stupid? I would hope people would be smart enough to realize that it's really easy to type a message saying that something has been scanned for viruses.
Ugh, it's not even like you have to be computer savvy to figure these things out. Do people open their houses to random drifters who say they work for the city and need to do some work without at least checking for ID?
Actually, yeah, they do, oy.,,what a world...
Upon more investigation -- noting that every article on the page is written by the same person, and that person is the person who registered the domain, and nearly every article contains the same info (and sometimes the same text) as available from other widely known sources -- I wonder whether this site exists only to generate ad revenues from people who trip over it. Well, thanks to SlashDot, it's payday for Mr. Hora.
Am I part of the core demographic for Swedish Fish?
Well, I don't see myself as a 'Windows Defender' but I've never gotten a virus/worm/trojan on windows, and I _do_ use IE, for many years, on many machines, on many kinds of network.
There is some sort of parallel 'windows world' in which all windows machines are worm-riddled and uptimes are measured in days if not hours and commercial software randomly crashes and free software is not available, and clearly a number of slashdotters live there. But there's also the rest of the world in which windows stuff mostly is available and works.
Disclaimer: The firewall remains the most important part of a network
Whence? Hence. Whither? Thither.
And don't tell me it's just because MS is a bigger target. Linux runs between 35%-40% of the worlds servers
Yes SERVERS. Servers dont tend to have stupid users with email clients on them running whatever they are told to by the email message, which is exactly how this (and many before it) spread. Thats the difference here.
(Yes I know Linux is more proactively secure, but its security still doesnt protect from user stupidity. And before anyone says that users wouldnt be stupid to chmod permissions or untar a tgz with permissions retained, think about the recent worm that required users to enter a freaking password to unzip and run it. That one got around fairly well.)