E-mail worm
 

SAN FRANCISCO, California (Reuters) -- A new e-mail worm has surfaced that purports to show screensavers of U.S. spy satellite pictures of Iraq or animations that are either patriotic or that mock President Bush, a computer security company warned Thursday.

The worm, dubbed Ganda-A, spreads by sending itself to e-mail addresses on an infected machine and tries to disable anti-virus and other security software and infect certain files on the hard disk, according to Sophos.

Ganda, which does not appear to be spreading and is rated low risk, sends e-mail in English or Swedish. It is signed by "Uncle Roger in Hornsand, Sweden," who complains in a message about being discriminated against in the Swedish school system, Sophos said.

Subject lines include: "Spy pics," "GO USA!!!!," "G.W Bush animation," and others like "Catlover," and "Disgusting propaganda."

Ganda also sends a message in Swedish to e-mail addresses apparently belonging to Swedish journalists, Sophos said.

After the September 11 attacks, a worm circulated that tricked computer users by pretending to contain images of the World Trade Center attack.

Information taken from CNN.

This is bullshit. I can't stand people who would do such a thing...


(I've never gotten a virus via e-mail, I guess I'm not special enough... :() Klez, Loveletter, now this... I missed it all! lol

I've only seen one in my e-mail. The attachment on it was like 3MB and the subject line was like, "What time did you say we should meet again?"

I got a virus in the email that fried my mobo.. =(

augh its called Nowar v1.0 nothing major ...its not like its that big of a virus ... some people add the weirdest things to their viruses....

The Yankee Doodle virus that played that song at 5 PM every day owned.

Lol i never heard of that one. some things are totaly random ... just goes to show u that most virus's are made when people are bored lol. yankee doodle hha. u gota admit Lovebug was the best ever made. it infected i think over 13,000 in liike 2 days ...