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Kama Sutra Worm Hits Softly
An anonymous reader writes "Despite warnings of the danger posed by the Kama Sutra worm, ZDNet is reporting that things haven't been nearly as bad as expected." From the article: "There have been 'no reports of any (Kama Sutra) detonations so far. Also, the virus seems to be dropping in e-mail prevalence. It was down to second place yesterday, according to our monitoring stations, and slid again into third place today,' Paul Ducklin, head of technology at Sophos Asia-Pacific, told ZDNet Australia. The worm's ranking was overtaken by MyDoom and Netsky variants, which have been around for a number of years. "
It sounds like the news over hyped a story for no reason. Say it ain't so!
that might just be the raciest title on a /. article ever. W0W
There is no patch for user stupidity.
Bury me in mashed potatoes.
Does this mean A) we've done a good job training our users or B) no one infected with this worm is willing to admit it?
Most of the users I support would rather reconstruct their documents than admit they clicked on a "free pr0n" e-mail. Wonder how accurate this news really is.
There is no reasonable defense against an idiot with an agenda
:wq
Yes, there is.
"Prefiero morir de pie que vivir siempre arrodillado!"
Of course it's soft at first. But wait until it changes positions a few times! It will be surprisingly intense before long.
/syle
In all fairness though, you may not notice a critical document has been lost until a few days down the line...
Really?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computer_worm
A computer worm is a self-replicating computer program, similar to a computer virus. A virus attaches itself to, and becomes part of, another executable program; however, a worm is self-contained and does not need to be part of another program to propagate itself....The main difference between a computer virus and a worm is that a virus can not propagate by itself whereas worms can. A worm uses a network to send copies of itself to other systems and it does so without any intervention
This thing (from what little I read) emails itself around when it can... which would qualify it as a worm.
I'm a little fuzzy on the intervention part... the user has to to the initial activation, which could be intervention, but then again you have to do the initial activation with viruses, so I don't think that qualifies.
This thing doesn't seem to make itself part of another executable persé, so it wouldn't quite qualify as a virus.
Maybe I read my definitions wrong...