Porn e-mail virus infects major corporations
Windows users, beware offers of free porn and mysterious PDFs.
There's a new virus making the rounds in people's inboxes. Sometimes it offers a link to ?free sex movies? and sometimes it offers a link to a PDF.
In the PDF version of the scam, the e-mails are titled ?Here you have? or ?Just For you.? The body text reads: ?This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here,? followed by a link.
But if you click the link for the PDF or the sex movies, you end up at a malware hosting website. Once the worm gets downloaded on a Windows PC, it accesses a user's Microsoft Outlook account and spreads the e-mail to the user's entire contact list.
The BBC reports NASA, AIG, Disney, Procter & Gamble and Wells Fargo have all been affected.
Protection from the virus can be downloaded at McAfee Security's Labs Blog.
In a post about the virus at ThreatPost.com, tech blogger Dennis Fisher said ?it's 2001 all over again,? and likened the virus to the plethora of mass-mailing viruses of the earlier part of the decade.
In 2000, a The ILOVEYOU virus spread via e-mail and attacked tens of millions of Windows computers.
There's a new virus making the rounds in people's inboxes. Sometimes it offers a link to ?free sex movies? and sometimes it offers a link to a PDF.
In the PDF version of the scam, the e-mails are titled ?Here you have? or ?Just For you.? The body text reads: ?This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here,? followed by a link.
But if you click the link for the PDF or the sex movies, you end up at a malware hosting website. Once the worm gets downloaded on a Windows PC, it accesses a user's Microsoft Outlook account and spreads the e-mail to the user's entire contact list.
The BBC reports NASA, AIG, Disney, Procter & Gamble and Wells Fargo have all been affected.
Protection from the virus can be downloaded at McAfee Security's Labs Blog.
In a post about the virus at ThreatPost.com, tech blogger Dennis Fisher said ?it's 2001 all over again,? and likened the virus to the plethora of mass-mailing viruses of the earlier part of the decade.
In 2000, a The ILOVEYOU virus spread via e-mail and attacked tens of millions of Windows computers.
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