Most creative Worm

[meneer]

Since Viruswriter started a worm war (see http://www.wilderssecurity.com/showthread.php?t=23569;start=msg139438#msg139438_, let us be the judges. Just pick your favourite (perhaps I misclassified or forgot a worm or two, sorry...)

[beetlejuice]

I've never been infected by a worm. I guess WG is doing it's job, and watching what I do of course. ;D

[JayK]

{QUOTE-> quoting: beetlejuice link=board=19;threadid=23592;start=0#msg139477 date=1078405075]
I've never been infected by a worm. I guess WG is doing it's job, and watching what I do of course. ;D
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Me thinks it more of the later. Only ignorant,dumb people or careless people get infected with mass mailing worms.

[gkweb]

MSBlast was very well done with a nice html blue page with Microsoft logo, very weel done.

[sig]

Don't you mean Swen? http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.swen.a@mm.html

Blaster is an internet borne worm that uses open ports on unpatched PC's to infect them.





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[bigc73542]

I would have to say blaster even though it used unpatched machines to infect it was very succesful. It was the only true infection I have ever had. I did a full format and restore and before I could update my av or firewall it got me twice in ten minutes. I am glad it is really easy to get rid of. ;)

[DMo224]

{QUOTE-> quoting: JayK link=board=19;threadid=23592;start=0#msg139593 date=1078423688]Me thinks it more of the later. Only ignorant,dumb people or careless people get infected with mass mailing worms. <-QUOTE}I think I may have fit in one of those categories.

I vote Klez since it got me via hotmail. My son and I were reading an email that he got in hotmail. It was an ad that he had a question about. I told him it was junk and delete it. He deleted it and hotmail automatically opened the next email. Lo and behold, worm time (and no spice). :'(

We don't normally deleted open hotmail emails since it opens the next one, but we did that time. We're more careful now!

[JayK]

{QUOTE-> quoting: DMo224 link=board=19;threadid=23592;start=0#msg142692 date=1079028497]
{QUOTE-> quoting: JayK link=board=19;threadid=23592;start=0#msg139593 date=1078423688]Me thinks it more of the later. Only ignorant,dumb people or careless people get infected with mass mailing worms. <-QUOTE}I think I may have fit in one of those categories.

I vote Klez since it got me via hotmail. My son and I were reading an email that he got in hotmail. It was an ad that he had a question about. I told him it was junk and delete it. He deleted it and hotmail automatically opened the next email. Lo and behold, worm time (and no spice). :'(

We don't normally deleted open hotmail emails since it opens the next one, but we did that time. We're more careful now!
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Hmm, Why doesn't deleting an attachment in hotmail automatically open the next attachment?

Even if this is so , it's poor design in hotmail and not the creativity of klez???

[DMo224]

For clarity, I hit delete on an opened email with an attachment. When hotmail deleted it, it automatically opened the next email and attachment. There was also a hotlink in the email, if that made a difference.

I really don't understand the workings of how that happened. I wrote MSN about what had happened. Of course, it can't happen although it did.

And, of course, they told me that McAfee would have caught it............but it didn't!