mass e-mail Worm
Top News Article | Reuters.com: "FRANKFURT, Germany (Reuters) - A mass e-mail posing as a plea for aid to help the victims of last month's Asian tsunami disaster is actually a vehicle for spreading a computer virus, Web security firm Sophos said Monday.
The worm appears with the subject line: 'Tsunami donation! Please help!' and invites recipients to open an attachment called 'tsunami.exe' -- which, if opened, will forward the virus to other Internet users.
It could also initiate a denial-of-service attack against a German hacking Web Site, Sophos said, in which the site's server would be bombarded with messages, putting it out of action. "
The worm appears with the subject line: 'Tsunami donation! Please help!' and invites recipients to open an attachment called 'tsunami.exe' -- which, if opened, will forward the virus to other Internet users.
It could also initiate a denial-of-service attack against a German hacking Web Site, Sophos said, in which the site's server would be bombarded with messages, putting it out of action. "
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