Thursday, February 02, 2006
Don’t let the “Kama Sutra” Worm Get You Twisted
On Friday February 3rd, a worm virus with the obscene name of “Kama Sutra” will activate itself on infected Windows computers. When active, it tries to disable a number of locally installed antivirus and firewall products, and attempts to harvest email addresses from the infected computer, in an effort to spread itself further. In addition, it destroys DOC, XLS, MDB, MDE, PPT, PPS, ZIP, RAR, PDF, PSD and DMP files, replacing their content with an error message. According to LURHQ (http://www.lurhq.com/blackworm-stats.html) at this time there are between 300,000 to 600,000 infected computers worldwide.
If you are a Safe@Office antivirus service subscriber, you’ve no reason to twist. The worm, usually spread by email has been added to the Safe@Office gateway antivirus database on January 17th and emails including the worm attachment have not reached your system.
The “Kama Sutra” virus is also known as: Worm.VB-8, Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi, CME-24, WORM_GREW.A, W32.Blackmal.E@mm, W32/Tearec.A.worm, Email-Worm.Win32.Nyxem.e, W32/MyWife.d@MM and Win32/Mywife.E@mm.
More information on the “Kama Sutra” virus can be found in the following Microsoft advisory: http://www.microsoft.com/technet/security/advisory/904420.mspx
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