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Old January 21st, 2011, 09:40 AM
stackz stackz is offline
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Default Kama Sutra Email Virus

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A malicious backdoor Trojan using illicit images is currently making its way through email inboxes around the world. Sophos is reporting that the computer worm lurks within an attachment offering a Kama Sutra PowerPoint presentation.
http://www.infopackets.com/news/secu...h_position.htm
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Old January 21st, 2011, 11:14 AM
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Default Re: Kama Sutra Email Virus

This is one of those 2-pronged attacks:

1) The social engineering part:

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the computer worm lurks within an attachment

2) Exploiting those with no basic protection against unauthorized executables:

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After activating the link (which is in fact an .EXE executable file)

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Old January 23rd, 2011, 07:08 AM
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Exclamation Kama Sutra

Don't laugh...
The Kama Sutra Presentation has screwed many PCs...
 

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