New Email Worm Squirming Through Windows Users' Inboxes

Trailrunner7 writes "There appears to be an actual email worm in circulation right now, using the tried-and-true infection method of sending emails containing malicious executables to all of the names in a user's email address book. The worm arrives via emails with the subject line 'Here You Have' or something similar, and the messages contain a link to a site that will download a malicious file to the victim's PC. The malware then drops itself into the Windows directory with a file name of CSRSS.EXE, which is identical to a legitimate Windows file. From there, it's 2001 all over again, as the worm attempts to mail itself to all of the contacts in the victim's Outlook address book."

Comments

Re:What do you mean 2001?

[gbjbaanb]

Sod OWA, there's only 1 good use for it: DavMail

this is an app that sits on your PC acting as a gateway between OWA and Thunderbird (and Lightning if you want to use your Outlook calendar too). It can also run on a server and act as that gateway for all users on your network.

The only thing you miss is the 'push' email as its sent, but I find my corporate Outlook/Exchange environment takes a good while to transmit emails across the firewalls anyway so its no loss that you have to (automatically, in the background) poll for new mail regularly.

Re:So that's why the UW mail system went down

[causality]

New users keep coming as even more PCs are sold. Blinded by marketspeak about how easy a PC (i.e. Windows) is, they refuse to learn. That is very unfortunate because said people have vast computing powers that easily outperform supercomputers just a few decades old. Coupled with the attitude that their time is too valuable to learn something about computers they use (insert your favorite car analogy here) this refusal to educate themselves creates an ever growing problem for the network as a whole: when a PC is infected to a crawl these people tend to buy a new one, with even more computing power.

That's why I'd like to see Microsoft forced to assume product liability so long as they market their software to the general public on the basis of "ease of use". Either market it to "technically knowledgable users only" or pay monetary damages to anyone and everyone who suffers in any way due to security issues. Until then, Microsoft gets to profit handsomely from Windows and Windows software without bearing any of the cost of its downsides. That gives them the rightful status of a parasite. This is what needs to change.