a genuine virus warning

[Doug Yanega]

Just heard about the new "naked wife" worm on NPR, and symantec's site
confirms it:

http://service1.symantec.com/sarc/sarc.nsf/html/W32.Naked@mm.html

"W32.Naked at mm is a mass mailing worm that disguises itself as flash movie.
The attachment is named NakedWife.exe. This worm, after it has attempted to
email everyone in the Microsoft Outlook address book, will attempt to
delete several system files. This will leave the system unusable, requiring
a re-install."

Forewarned is forearmed, and as subscribers to mailing lists, we're
especially easy targets (one subscriber gets it and it gets passed to the
whole list). I fully expect we'll all see it within the next few days, as
with the Hybris worm. Life would be simpler if NO ONE used Microsoft
Outlook; all the major worms and viruses rely on it to propagate (if you
don't use MO, it can't spread from your machine).


Doug Yanega        Dept. of Entomology         Entomology Research Museum
Univ. of California - Riverside, Riverside, CA 92521
phone: (909) 787-4315 (standard disclaimer: opinions are mine, not UCR's)
           http://entmuseum9.ucr.edu/staff/yanega.html
  "There are some enterprises in which a careful disorderliness
        is the true method" - Herman Melville, Moby Dick, Chap. 82



 
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