May 2, 2005

REDFINING THE 'VIRUS':

Trend Micro Issues Medium Risk Virus Alert (Trend Micro, 5/2/2005)

Using social engineering techniques, it sends out an email supposedly sent by the soccer organization FIFA, informing recipients that they won tickets for the upcoming FIFA World Cup 2006 in Germany. It also sends email messages in English or in German, depending on the country-level domains of the gathered addresses.

Social engineering, a propagation technique that is widely utilized by most worm programs, invests largely on computer users' instinctive tendency to open email messages, execute attachments that are enticing and apparently harmless, and download and unknowingly open attractively named files.

Betcha Orrin thinks they've misdiagnosed the real virus here.

Posted by John Resnick at May 2, 2005 8:15 PM
Comments

"enticing and apparently harmless" ???

Posted by: Matt Murphy at May 2, 2005 8:59 PM

"Betcha Orrin thinks they've misdiagnosed the real virus here."

That's pretty funny!

Posted by: Bruce Cleaver at May 2, 2005 9:24 PM

I won't have a problem with that one either.

Posted by: Robert Schwartz at May 2, 2005 9:56 PM
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