Harry Potter and the worm of doom

Spinner (Spinner) A leading antivirus company warned Thursday that the Netsky worm was making a comeback on the coattails of fictional wizard Harry Potter.

June 3, 2004 7:01 PM ET in News,

A leading antivirus company warned Thursday that the Netsky worm was making a comeback on the coattails of fictional wizard Harry Potter.

Such spoofing is a popular “social engineering” technique to get recipients to open malicious files. Previous pests have disguised themselves as naked photos of actress Jennifer Lopez, match-making software and a memo from the recipient’s IT administrator.

Source: News.com

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4 Comments:

  1. shwaip
    3 Jun '04, 7:43 pm

    woohoo...

    /me clicks on email labelled "Harry Potter Nude"

  2. Lincoln
    3 Jun '04, 7:54 pm
    Quoting shwaip

    woohoo...

    * shwaip clicks on email labelled "Harry Potter Nude"

  3. GHoosdum
    4 Jun '04, 11:16 am
    Quoting shwaip

    woohoo...

    * shwaip clicks on email labelled "Harry Potter Nude"

    You are a very, very sick man.

  4. shwaip
    4 Jun '04, 11:34 am

    and if only to reinforce that sentiment...

    here we have harry giving what he likes to call "The Worm of Doom" to a young woman...

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