Graham Cluley
Graham Cluley
Graham Cluleyis a British security blogger and the author of grahamcluley.com; a daily blog on the latest computer security news, opinion, and advice...
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Worms and viruses are increasingly being written to steal confidential data from innocent people's computers, to hijack resources, or launch spam or denial-of-service attacks,
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Two years ago, the US accounted for over half of all spam sent to the world - now it is less than a quarter, evidence which confirms that more Americans are waking up to the need to protect their home computers from malicious hackers. More and more viruses, worms and Trojan horses are being designed to take over innocent users' computers with the intention of stealing information and sending out junk email campaigns.
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It's funny to us as we're so used to worms and viruses being bad news rather than making the world a better place.
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It's quirky and very different from what we usually see. It's certainly a change from the monotony of worms designed to steal from you.
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It's disturbing to see a second worm for Mac OS X so soon after the first, but it should be remembered that this is only two compared to well over 100,000 viruses for Microsoft operating systems.
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The Mytob worms have made a significant impact on the virus outbreak charts this year, so anything which may prevent future variants from being developed and released must be welcomed.
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Compare what those viruses did to what happens today: If a worm steals your bank information or hacks into your accounts, that is it. You have been robbed.
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Companies should educate their users to practice safe computing - that includes never opening unsolicited email attachments and discouraging the sending and receiving of joke files, pornography and screensavers. This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer, but they could be putting their entire company's data at risk.
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That points to the guy in Turkey, who is alleged to have paid the worm author for writing Zotob.
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This worm is over a year old, so anyone that's updated their virus protections in the last year will be protected.
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This worm feeds on people's willingness to receive salacious content on their desktop computer, but they could be putting their entire company's data at risk.
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This Trojan writer just wants to clean up the Internet, which is unique for a worm creator. But despite what they might see as the best of intentions, this isn't the way to do it.
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We would still love to see a sample of this and determine if this is a potential threat to our customers. It's a little bit disappointing that they are not sharing the sample.
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We have seen a large increase in these types of Trojans targeting online gamers, as role-playing games have become a big business.