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Monday, January 17, 2005

Computer Worm Exploits Tsunami to Spread Virus

Well this took longer then I thought it would to appear, but appear it did, nonetheless. A mass e-mail posing as a plea for aid to help the victims of last month's Asian tsunami disaster is actually a vehicle for spreading a computer virus, Web security firm Sophos said Monday.
The worm appears with the subject line: "Tsunami donation! Please help!" and invites recipients to open an attachment called "tsunami.exe" -- which, if opened, will forward the virus to other Internet users.
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