Thursday, February 2, 2006

D-day warning chorus

Microsoft's anti-malware engineering team has joined the chorus of calls for computer users to <A HREF="http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,1895,1917482,00.asp?kc=ewnws020106dtx1k0000599">be on high alert for an email worm</A> that uses social engineering tactics to deliver a destructive payload. The company issued an official security advisory to back up a warning from its anti-malware researchers that the worm--known as Kama Sutra, Blackworm, MyWife.E, Nyxem.E--is programmed to permanently corrupt a number of common document format files on the third day of every month.

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