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-----Original Message-----
From: Ronald Wong [mailto:ron-wong@home.com]
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 2:57 PM
To: DML
Subject: DML: "Naked Wife" Virus Hits Computers
This one is real-----
WASHINGTON (AP) - A destructive computer virus hit at least 30 organizations
and one federal agency Tuesday, security experts said. Like the most recent
widespread virus that used the name of tennis star Anna Kournikova, this new
program called "Naked Wife" takes advantage of users "baser instincts," an
antivirus company spokeswoman said.
Steve Trilling, director of research at the Symantec Antivirus Research
Center, said about 20 of Symantec's clients in Canada, the United States and
Europe had been hit.
Trilling said the virus, which appears with the subject line "FW: Naked
Wife," deletes almost all of a computer's vital system files. It also sends
itself out to everyone in the user's e-mail address book.
"It essentially destroys your Windows operating system," he said.
The virus e-mail contains an attachment called
"NakedWife.exe." Like most viruses, the recipient's computer is only
infected if the receiver runs the attachment, and major antivirus companies
have released software that detects and removes it.
Susan Orbach, spokeswoman for Trend Micro, said her company has received
reports of infections from 10 corporate clients, including two large
telecommunications firms, a federal agency and a "multinational
conglomerate," she said.
"This is not any new technology we haven't seen before," Orbach said. "It's
social engineering to take advantage of our baser instincts."
Both Trilling and Orbach suggested that corporate network administrators
block incoming program attachments, since it seems that computer users will
continue to click on suspicious attachments, no matter how many times
they're stung.
"Very few people have a legitimate reason to receive executable files in
e-mail," Orbach said. "Haven't people learned?"
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