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Saw this over at SNN

There appears to be a new worm running around exploiting the well known bind vulnerability and installing a root kit on Linux boxes - Lion Worm Virus on Linux. Regardless, you should have tripwire or something running anyway so it really shouldn't be a very big concern.

Saw this over at SNN

Ahhh, there's nothing better than waking up in the morning to more virus warnings. This time around though, turkeys got to the news first, but I managed to dig up a little more dirt *grin*:

Saw this over at SNN

Saw this over at SNN

Not sure if you've read about this already or not, but McAfee are warning PC users to be on the lookout for a potentially nasty worm called "Magistr". The worm has been rated as a medium-risk threat because it appears to be spreading slowly. That being said though, the payload of the virus is supposedly "deadly" having capability to destroy filesystems (on Windows 9x machines), as well as rewrite key start-up settings and functions stored in the CMOS memory and flash BIOS.

Saw this over at SNN

[K]alamar has refined his virus generation software. It can now produce worms scrambled with two types of encryption, an anti-deletion function and the ability to carry a payload of an executable file. Have you updated your anti-virus software? Do you have detection modules at the various points of entry into your infrastructure? Studies have shown that even if anti-virus software is installed, it is often out of date.

A slew of new worms may be on their way to your e-mail inbox even if you run anti-viral software. Why? Well a new version of VBS Worm Generator, the virus creation program used to write the Anna Kournikova worm in February, has been released by the program's creator, who claims that worms created with the newest version of his program will be undetectable by most antiviral software.

A little extra about the NakedWife

Saw this over at SNN

We've seen it before and we'll see it again. No, not an Flash movie of a married woman; it's an e-mail worm in the form of an attached executable that, once run, mails itself to everybody in your Microsoft Outlook address book. According to Symantec Corp. the worm then proceeds to delete all the .ini, .log, .dll, .exe, .com, and .bmp files from Windows and WindowsSystem folders leaving the system unable to function.