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Anti-virus experts are alerting all consumers of a worm virus known as Kama Sutra. |
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Friday, 03 February 2006 |
Antivirus specialists are warning that a malicious computer worm, dubbed "Kama Sutra" is set to delete files on computer systems worldwide.
The Kama Sutra worm, named after the famous Sanskrit treatise on love and sexual positions, has been spreading through cyberspace since January 16th, packaged in emails with subject headings like "give me a kiss" and "crazy illegal sex."
When users click on an attachment sent with the emails, their computers
become infected with malicious software designed to replicate itself. The worm burrows itself deep within any infected computer running Microsoft Windows XP, Windows 2000, Windows 98 and Windows ME operating systems.
On Friday, February 3rd and every third of the month after, the worm is programmed to go to work which will overwrite and corrupt Microsoft Windows Office documents, Word documents, Excel spread sheets, and PDF (portable document format) files.
The computer security company LURHQ reports that there may be hundreds of thousands of machines already infected with the worm, which also goes by the monikers "BlackWorm," "CME-24," "Blackmal," "Mywife.E" and "Nyxem."
But security companies assure that its not too late to protect your system from such a fate. Make sure you are running an anti-virus program, and be sure that your "definitions" from the antivirus program are up to date. |