{"id":289,"date":"2007-01-20T19:45:03","date_gmt":"2007-01-21T00:45:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=289"},"modified":"2007-01-20T19:45:03","modified_gmt":"2007-01-21T00:45:03","slug":"beware-the-worm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=289","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Worm"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a target=\"_blank\" title=\"ZDnet\" href=\"http:\/\/www.zdnet.com\">ZDnet <\/a>sent out an e-mail announcement last night <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"ZDnet: Storm Worm\" href=\"http:\/\/news.zdnet.com\/2100-1009_22-6151414.html\">about the Storm Worm<\/a> &#8212; an insidious <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Symantec: trojan\" href=\"http:\/\/www.symantec.com\/avcenter\/cybercrime\/trojans_spyware.html?src=symsug_us\">trojan<\/a> that can cause the recipient&#8217;s computer to become part of a <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wiki: botnet\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Botnet\">botnet<\/a> (and slowing functionality to near nil, not to mention making it part of a mass <a target=\"_blank\" title=\"Wiki: spam\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/E-mail_spam\">spam<\/a> spreader).<\/p>\n<p>Since Thursday night, I&#8217;ve received notices that Bellsouth prohibited delivery of seven e-mails containing the trojan (under the versions W32\/Downloader.AYDY and W32\/Downloader.AYEN).\u00c2\u00a0 The subject lines varied, as follows:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The commander of a U.S. nuclear submarine lunch the rocket by mistake<\/li>\n<li>Sadam Hussein alive!<\/li>\n<li>U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Sending domains included HickoryFarms.com in the US, as well as a couple in the UK and Mexico.\u00c2\u00a0 Once infected, the machines spread it like crazy.<\/p>\n<p>Be careful out there, and make sure your virus definitions are up to date!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>ZDnet sent out an e-mail announcement last night about the Storm Worm &#8212; an insidious trojan that can cause the recipient&#8217;s computer to become part of a botnet (and slowing functionality to near nil, not to mention making it part &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/?p=289\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.citizennetmom.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}