Sex sells and the new internet worm (Nyxem-E) nick-named the “Kama Sutra worm” because it spreads under the guise of pornographic content, has leap-frogged lesser viruses reaching top-spot on world virus charts.

Nyxem-E aka Kama Sutra is a mass-mailing worm which attempts to disable security-related and file-sharing software and destroys files of certain types. When run on a Windows PC, the worm copies itself to shared network locations, and sends itself to e-mail addresses found on the target computer. Nyxem-E, according to F-Secure, is programmed to disable anti-virus and firewall software, and delete certain files including Office documents, on the third day of every month.

The Kama Sutra worm arrives as an e-mail attachment, with different subject lines including “School girl fantasies gone bad,” “The Best Videoclip Ever,” “A Great Video,” “give me a kiss,” “Fwd: Photo,” “Fw: Sexy,” “You Must View This Videoclip!” “Miss Lebanon 2006,” etc. The text differs; it may include references to the Kama Sutra - the ancient Sanskrit book on sex and related matters.

F-Secure has reported a steady stream of Nyxem worms from all over the world, and has said that at last call the worm showed 510,000 infected systems.

January 19, 2006

Kamasutra Virus Advisory

A computer virus is circulating on the Internet. Known by various names, including Kamasutra, it corrupts files on infected machines. To help protect your computer, we recommend taking the following steps:

1) Make sure you have enabled virus filtering on your AT&T Worldnet mail account. Find out if virus filtering is enabled on your account.

2) Filters are updated. After updating your software, run a complete system scan.

3) Above all, before opening any e-mail attachments, verify with the sender that they are authentic. If you do not recognize the sender, delete the message. Be especially wary of attachments that are said to contain either security-related information, such as reports on your Internet usage, or salacious content.

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