And this week’s entry into Increasingly Nasty Worms and Virii goes to W32.Beagle.J@mm (and similar names), which is busy spreading joy across the Internet.
The worm arrives as an e-mail from “administrator” or “support” or some other official-sounding type from your own domain. It tells you in reasonable English about a problem with your e-mail account, and conveniently includes a Zip file for you to open, along with its password.
Needless to say, once opened and executed, it does all sorts of nasty things.
And, needless to say, you should:
- Have a good anti-virus program and a current subscription to its updates protecting your system at all times.
- Not open e-mail attachments unless it’s someone you know and an attachment you’re expecting. If you get something that looks official, go to your ISP or host’s (or the company that it claims to be from’s) web page and look for a mention of it there.
- See #1.
Etc., etc., etc.
All this should go without saying, but apparently cannot be.
(via Les and others)
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Just got one of those. I mean, it’s written so poorly and formatted so badly you just have to think…What, I was born yesterday? Did I just fall off the turnip truck?
That and the 18 Nigerian e-mails and a few others keep me chuckling…