Kama Sutra Worm Could Make For A Bad Friday

Posted by Zonk on Thursday February 2, 2006 @04:14AM from the batten-the-hatches-tie-down-the-sails dept.

mikey1134 writes "CNN is running a story about the Kama Sutra worm, a virus that is coded to overwrite files of the (potentially thousands of) infected computers. They provide some background on this viral outbreak and warn users to protect themselves" From the article: "And even for home computer users who have never taken such precautions before, security experts say now would be a good time to back up your most important data, like financial information and family photographs, to CDs, DVDs, zip drives, or an external hard drive that you know is worm and virus free. Unlike a lot of malware that exploits vulnerabilities in the Windows operating system, there is no 'patch' that can be downloaded to ward off Kama Sutra."

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Searches Network Shares by ObsessiveMathsFreak · 2006-02-02 04:45 · Score: 3, Interesting

This one will be more damaging than people think.

A lot of SMEs uses unsecured and passwordless network shares for sharing company data. Data that is stored in, you guessed it, *.doc *.xls, etc, etc files. This virus looks for shared drives such as this and will corrupt the files on them tomorrow.

If only one PC in the company is effected, I can see a whole lot of sore heads tomorrow at lunchtime.

I guess I should have paid more attention to this one.

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Re:Many Aliases and More Info by xeoron · 2006-02-02 05:15 · Score: 3, Interesting

I would think one of the best solutions (along with backing things up) is to turn the system clock back a few days, until a proven removal tool can be used.