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| The Sysbug Trojan poses as photographs of an
erotic entanglement |
Sophos, a world leader in anti-virus and anti-spam protection
for businesses, has received several reports of a new Trojan horse
- Sysbug (Troj/Sysbug-A).
Distributed via a saucy email, this Trojan horse is disguised as an
attachment promising naked pictures. If run, Sysbug allows hackers
to gain unauthorised remote access to affected computers.
The email arrives with the subject line 'Re[2] Mary' and
contains the following text:
"Hello my dear Mary,
I have been thinking about you all night. I would like to
apologize for the other night when we made beautiful love and did
not use condoms. I know this was a mistake and I beg you to forgive
me.
I miss you more than anything, please call me Mary, I need
you. Do you remember when we were having wild sex in my house? I
remember it all like it was only yesterday. You said that the
pictures would not come out good, but you were very wrong, they are
great. I didn't want to show you the pictures at first, but now I
think it's time for you to see them. Please look in the attachment
and you will see what I mean.
I love you with all my heart, James."
"This Trojan horse has been spammed out en masse in an attempt
to hit as many people as possible," said Graham Cluley, senior
technology consultant for Sophos. "No matter what provocative pics
an email may promise, computer users need to think twice before
opening an unsolicited attachment. Simply put: if your name isn't
Mary, and you didn't have unprotected sex with a guy called James
the other night, what on earth are you doing even thinking of
opening the attachment? You really shouldn't be surprised if you
and your computer end up being unpleasantly compromised."
Sophos's anti-virus researchers have made available protection
against the Trojan horse.
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