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Watch out for those dirty emails on Friday:
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6031881.html [Broken]
http://news.zdnet.com/2100-1009_22-6031881.html [Broken]
Businesses have been warned to brace themselves for a possible traffic spike next week caused by the Kama Sutra worm.
The virus, dubbed Nyxem.E among other names, was first reported on Jan. 16. It is thought to have infected more than half a million PCs. Security vendor IronPort warned Thursday that these machines are now hard-coded to propagate the virus on Feb. 3.
The Internet community will not know the scale of the February attack until it occurs. "It depends on how many hosts are infected," Steer said. "At the moment it's just sitting there quietly, and we won't know how many home users have been infected until Feb. 3."
Businesses should warn their employees not to open suspicious e-mails, and to know what these e-mails may look like. "The subject lines may contain some references to pornography--fairly typical stuff," Steer said.
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