Kama Sutra worm disaster
p2p news / p2pnet: The Kama Sutra mass-mailing worm, aka W32/Nyxem-E, was supposed to have decimated computers around the world, yesterday.
But today, it was business as usual for systems everywhere – most of them at least.
F-Secure, who tagged the worm Nyxem,-E was giving out free disinfect software, and the flood of reports on the devastation it was expected to cause certainly helped to pull the worm’s sting.
It was called Kama Sutra because it was supposed to have been carrying pornographic content.
The worm deletes and overwrites the hard drives of infected computers on the 3rd of every month.
But various reports say only about 600,000 computers were actually infected.
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tagged the worm – Nyxem.E goes live Feb 3, February 1, 2006
February 4th, 2006 at 4:11 pm
Scene: an office somewhere.
Bored and horny employee: “wow, I’m so horny right now, and despite the fact I can get porn from almost anywhere on the net, this email from a nice total stranger says it has porn attached. Excellent, just what I needed right now, maybe it’s best if I open it right away… ”
Are people really that stupid in 2006?
February 4th, 2006 at 7:24 pm
My friend got it and it wiped her 98 box clean.
February 4th, 2006 at 9:55 pm
Agreed……….Q.E.D.