Experts at Sophos have warned users to be wary of unsolicited emails claiming to contain obscene pictures and sex movies.
The W32/Nyxem-D worm (also known as Email-Worm.Win32.VB.bi or W32.Blackmal.E@mm) can spread via email using a variety of pornographic disguises, in an attempt to disable security software. If launched it tries to disable a number of anti-virus and firewall products, and attempts to harvest other email addresses from the infected computer, in an effort to spread itself further.
Subject lines used in the malicious emails include the following:
*Hot Movie*
Arab sex DSC-00465.jpg
Fw: SeX.mpg
Fwd: Crazy illegal Sex!
give me a kiss
Miss Lebanon 2006
Part 1 of 6 Video clipe
School girl fantasies gone bad
The Best Videoclip Ever
Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant for Sophos said,
"Companies should educate their users to practise safe computing - that includes never opening unsolicited email attachments and discouraging the sending and receiving of joke files, pornography and funny photographs 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."
The W32/Nyxem-D Windows worm, which does not infect Macintosh computers, was first detected on 16 January 2006 and as ever, we recommend you keep your anti-virus software up to date.
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