Worms making the Rounds
Friday, April 13, 2007
Well, looks like the latest spamming of the Storm Worm / Nuwar / Peacomm worm managed to trick quite a few folks -- our University has been experiencing a minor outbreak among computer users who just can't remember that unsolicited EXE's, even in password-protected ZIP files, are a bad, bad thing...
Add to that another computer I'm working-on that was hit with a fresh copy of Delbot / Rinbot today, and we're having fun in IT...I can't imagine what a day like today would be like, should someone release something with as much staying power as Storm Worm (and old favorites like Bagle and Mydoom before it) and, say, a 0-Day 'sploit. Swell.
(To be honest, I get excited in a nerdy sort of way during worm outbreaks. I'm hard-coded to go into Network Security, I swear...)
- David
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