WARNING: “Storm Worm”
This is pretty important. An internet worm has been sent around potentially infecting thousands of computers. The worm was embedded in an email titled, "230 dead as storm batters Europe." If you opened such an email you may have a problem. In addition, I just deleted an email (before I even read this article) that had another title referencing storms in California. I rather suspect it may have been the same sort of trick.
The virus, which the company named "Storm Worm," was emailed to hundreds of thousands of addresses globally with the subject line "230 dead as storm batters Europe."
An attached file contained so-called malware that can infiltrate computer systems.
"What makes this exceptional is the timely nature of the attack," Mikko Hypponen, head of research at Finnish data security firm F-Secure (FSC1V.HE), told Reuters.
Please be alert for things like this. I suspect there will be more of this happening.
Geek Stuff | Gaius Friday, 19 January , 2007
