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Kama Sutra assumes damp squid position

Patchouli
Friday, 3 February 2006, 15:08
THE MUCH HYPED Kama Sutra worm tipped to wreak a trail of destruction in its wake appears to have instead has raised hardly a whimper never mind a scream.

The worm is likely to have affected home users' machines anyway, given that small, medium and large organisations appear to have learned their lesson from previous exploits.

Nevertheless, and according to reports, the Kama Sutra worm forced the municipality of Milano to turn off 10,000 machines.

Kama Sutra activates when you click an attachment on an email and then proceeds to do nasty things to important files on your machine.

The AV vendors knew about the threat some weeks ago and issued a fix to prevent Kama Sutra from screwing up their machines. µ

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