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A More Perfect Storm ! It's Back---Storm Worm

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Posted 13 April 2007 - 11:00 AM

New Storm Worm Outbreak Blasting The Internet

The latest variant is dangerous because it's encrypted to hide from antivirus programs and uses a hard-to-squash peer-to-peer network.
"Ullrich added that it's frustrating that this type of attack, which depends on users opening an attachment from an unknown sender, still works ... and works so well. "It's user stupidity, and that's the thing there is no patch for."


By Sharon Gaudin
InformationWeek
Apr 13, 2007 06:05 AM

http://www.informationweek.com/security/sh...cleID=199000691

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