Tsunami donation plea is virus.A mass-mailing worm poses as a plea for donations to help with the Indian Ocean Indian Ocean, third largest ocean, c.28,350,000 sq mi (73,427,000 sq km), extending from S Asia to Antarctica and from E Africa to SE Australia; it is c.4,000 mi (6,400 km) wide at the equator. It constitutes about 20% of the world's total ocean area. tsunami disaster. The VBSun-A worm (W32/VBSun-A) spreads via email, tempting innocent users into clicking onto its malicious Involving malice; characterized by wicked or mischievous motives or intentions. An act done maliciously is one that is wrongful and performed willfully or intentionally, and without legal justification. DESERTION, MALICIOUS. attachment by pretending to be information about how to donate to a tsunami relief effort. However, nmning the attached file will not only forward the virus to other internet users Internet user n → internauta m/f Internet user Internet n → internaute m/f but can also initiate a denial-of-service attack "DoS" redirects here. For other uses, see DOS (disambiguation). A denial-of-service attack (DoS attack) is an attempt to make a computer resource unavailable to its intended users. against a German hacking See hack and hacker. website. Emails sent by the worm arrive with the subject line' Tsunami Donation! Please help! 'and the message text 'Please help us with your-donation and view the attachment below! We need you!'. The worm has an attachment 'tsunami.exe'. VBSun-A is not the first virus to try and take advantage of the tsunami disaster in an attempt to spread. The VBS/Geven-B worm tried to spread a sick message earlier this month that the tsunami was Gods revenge on' people who did bad on earth'. There have also been a number of email seams distributed by criminals posing as victims in an attempt to steal money. There have only been a small number of reports of the VBSun-A worm, www.sophos.com |
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