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Friday, February 04, 2005

Watch out for 2 new worms!

With these two new worms, your family PC is fine if nobody opens any email attachments. Both involve faces. The funny-face worm, named Wurmark-F, " displays a photo of a man 'gurning' - a British tradition of pulling silly faces," CNET reports. The second one, called Bobax.H, targets news junkies with a photo of Saddam Hussein's face (the email says he's dead), CNET reports in a separate report. Both carry attachments that, if opened, launch trojan software that takes control of the computer (turns it into one of those zombie machines that send out zillions of spam messages). For more on this, see my feature, "What if our PC's a zombie?".

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