New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger

Another reason to discard your Microsoft bugware for *superior alternatives: New Worm Spreads Via MSN Messenger

Known as Jitux, the worm is self-propagating and contains a link to a Web site that automatically downloads an executable file named “jituxramon.exe” to the PC. Once the file runs, the worm begins sending out copies of itself

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Windows security issues

Just an observation – at the time of writing this post, the Microsoft Corporation website contains the following references relating to security issues affecting their software:

“What to do about the Blaster worm and its variants” … in home & entertainment
“Protect your system from Internet attacks”, “Urgent security alert: Patch available for the Blaster worm” and “Locate host computers that … view full post

How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks

I was ranting about Blogger’s permalink URIs a while ago. Relating to that, I just picked up on this post: ‘How to recognize a Weblog tool by its permalinks’ over at mpt, which in turn is inspired by Julian Missig. But as always, nobody says is better than the Mozilla UI man himself. Worth reading if … view full post

A new virus internet worm

A new virus internet worm is doing the rounds, I witnessed today (not first-hand luckily!) what it’s capable of and have been receiving it on one of my e-mail accounts about 5x daily (today, 20x) for the past few weeks (possibly months).

Method of infection: This virus can be considered a blended threat. It mass-mails itself to … view full post