New Worms Stretching Across Web
Two new low-threat worms are making the rounds on the Internet Thursday, continuing the plague of malware that began in January and has shown no signs whatsoever of abating. Of the two worms, known as Mywife and Snapper, the former appears to be the more worrisome and have the greater potential for spreading widely, security services said. Mywife arrives in an e-mail with a spoofed sending address and any one of several vaguely pornographic subject lines, including, “very hot XXX” and “FW:RE: Hot Erotic.” The body of the e-mail also varies and some of the messages are quite graphic. Full Story