Porn e-mail virus infects major corporations
 

Windows users, beware offers of free porn and mysterious PDFs.

There's a new virus making the rounds in people's inboxes. Sometimes it offers a link to ?free sex movies? and sometimes it offers a link to a PDF.

In the PDF version of the scam, the e-mails are titled ?Here you have? or ?Just For you.? The body text reads: ?This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here,? followed by a link.

But if you click the link for the PDF or the sex movies, you end up at a malware hosting website. Once the worm gets downloaded on a Windows PC, it accesses a user's Microsoft Outlook account and spreads the e-mail to the user's entire contact list.

The BBC reports NASA, AIG, Disney, Procter & Gamble and Wells Fargo have all been affected.

Protection from the virus can be downloaded at McAfee Security's Labs Blog.

In a post about the virus at ThreatPost.com, tech blogger Dennis Fisher said ?it's 2001 all over again,? and likened the virus to the plethora of mass-mailing viruses of the earlier part of the decade.

In 2000, a The ILOVEYOU virus spread via e-mail and attacked tens of millions of Windows computers.

Sorry but if you fall for something like this you deserve everything you get.

It's 2010 and people still open random attachments in their mail.

Wtf?

NASA? Wells Fargo?

Strange.

I think there's definitely going to be a point in time where computer viruses will be able to be classified as weapons.

Just goes to show - people believe anything they read if it's in a PDF.

been wondering what that porn movie was about from Nasa, heh