Close encounters of the viral kind - Sundor worm spreads alien message
Experts at SophosLabs™, Sophos's global network of virus and spam analysis centers, have advised users not to panic about a new worm which displays a message claiming to come from an extraterrestial alien.
The WM97/Sundor-A worm displays a picture of an alien with the following message:
I'm the alien.
Have a happy week.
I liked your computer.
The worm also deletes programs and documents from the infected computer's hard drive, hides desktop icons, and disables some security software potentially opening the computer to infection by other worms, viruses and spyware. "The good news is that you're more likely to be abducted by an alien than be infected by this virus," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos. "The Sundor-A worm has so far been remarkably unsuccessful at spreading its message to the inhabitants of planet Earth.
