Are You Ready for Some Football
The NFL started the regular season last weekend and many fans got a "special" email offering information about the new season. By visiting a linked website they could get an online game tracker which provided the games scheduled, channels to view them and statistics. What the user would get would be malware.
This is the latest incarnation of the Storm Worm. With the Storm Worm on a machine, it can be used to send spam and participate in denial of service attacks without the owner's knowledge. Storm Worm is estimated to comprise 25 percent of all detected malware. Because this program can be updated routinely, even every 30 minutes, the program is difficult to detect or remove regardless of how recent virus protection programs were updated on that machine.
User education is the best remedy for this problem. Do not trust email links, especially from an unverified source. If you were not expecting a "greeting card from your neighbor" or a link to a breaking news story or an NFL game tracker, don't click the link.
This is the latest incarnation of the Storm Worm. With the Storm Worm on a machine, it can be used to send spam and participate in denial of service attacks without the owner's knowledge. Storm Worm is estimated to comprise 25 percent of all detected malware. Because this program can be updated routinely, even every 30 minutes, the program is difficult to detect or remove regardless of how recent virus protection programs were updated on that machine.
User education is the best remedy for this problem. Do not trust email links, especially from an unverified source. If you were not expecting a "greeting card from your neighbor" or a link to a breaking news story or an NFL game tracker, don't click the link.
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