Kournikova worm marks 10th anniversary
Friday, 11 February, marks the 10th anniversary of the outbreak of the Anna Kournikova worm. The malware spread by tricking users into opening a mail message that supposedly contained a picture of the famous Russian tennis beauty. In reality, the malware harvested a victim's Outlook address book, forwarding fresh copies of …
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The Last paragraph
Of Cluley's item in the Sophos link was something of a keyboard destroyer for me! Recommended...
VB in email
Another Microsoft triumph of intelligence and foresight. Perhaps trumped by the shear fuckwittery known as Active-X. Yes , I'd download an untrusted binary onto my PC and run it! Not. Thanks , Morons in Seattle.
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday to you
Happy Birthday dear Anna
Happy Birthday to you
Hippo Birdy
You forgot to ask to pass the song on to everyone who knows you...
10 years? Can't be.
I had to remove this worm from a client's PC. Twice. In the same week. Seems the client in question was a big fan of Miss K, and was very keen to have a look at some photos of her. Very keen indeed.
The first?
>>"The Kournikova worm was the first to be created by someone with a toolkit and little technical knowledge"
I keep reading about these supposed "first" in the era of "macro" and VBScript worms, ignoring actual history, and all that came before.
I remember playing with something called NuKe's Randomic Life Generator back in the early 90s. This was a do-it-yourself virus construction kit, which employed a nifty menu-driven interface to create viruses (or mosters, as it called them) with pre-built code modules offering diverse destructive or stealth features. With just a few keystrokes you could create a polymorphic, boot-sector virus that would crash your drive and try to hijack Norton anti-virus to spread.
Before that there was also VCL: Virus Construction Laboratory.
Boy, those were fun days!
dZ.
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