Bawdy holiday worm preys on prurience
Antivirus software maker Sophos identified a new worm on Tuesday that is being hidden in an e-mail attachment that includes a nude photo.
The virus, dubbed by Sophos as Wurmark-D worm (or W32/Wurmark-D) is being distributed via a mass e-mail campaign which offers a New Year's message in the form of an attached photograph of naked bodies. Labeled as an "amusing file," the attachment carries the destructive worm along with a graphic image of naked men and women whose bodies have been aligned to form the words "Happy New Year."
Sophos said the malicious worm secretly installs itself as someone is viewing the nude image, and immobilizes security software on an infected computer. The worm also forwards itself to e-mail addresses stored in a corrupted PC.
