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From: Stlaurent Mr Steven <STLAURENTS@mctssa.usmc.mil>
To: <dakota-truck@buffnet.net>
Sent: Tuesday, March 06, 2001 6:06 PM
Subject: DML: RE: "Naked Wife" Virus Hits Computers
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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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