'Here You Have' Virus E-Mail Spreads Online

'Here You Have' Virus E-Mail Spreads Online

Have you heard about the new virus outbreak Here You have ? which is a global e-mail virus spamming inbox.Guess who are the unlucky ones? NASA, Comcast, AIG, Disney, Proctor & Gamble, Florida Department of Transportation and Wells Fargo those are just a few of the organizations apparently affected by the worm, which has sent out maybe millions of e-mails.

Lets look back in time, the First virus ever to hit the cyber world was called
"Elk Cloner" which was said to be created by a 15 year old dude called Rick Skrenta.And than came virus "Melissa" on 1999, it was the first ever virus to be classified as "Global Epidemic" affected around 1 million machines.and yeah who can ever forget the "I love you" bug that cause many US Government mainframes to crash.

Ok, nuff of history.Its making my head spin already; Lets snap back to reality

On Friday, an Atlanta-based security firm said it found a possible link between the latest worm attack; Here You Have and a cyber-jihad organization called "Brigades of Tariq ibn Ziyad".
Notice the word possible in the sentence above ?They have to find someone to put the blame on, don't they?

Any attack they receive now days are from terrorist, soon they'll even call a fly, terrorist, for crying out loud stop blaming them for everything ! Well if they are attacking you, good for you. Its cause you wanna stick your bloody little nose into every Tom dick and Harry's ass - You guys deserve it !

This latest worm seems to do nothing more than send itself out, using the victim's contact list.It appears to be mailing itself to all of the mailing lists that are in someone's contacts. It may also go to individuals," he said. The worm appeared to be affecting Outlook e-mail users, but it's not clear if it is also affecting users of other mail programs.

The body of the e-mail typically says something like, "Hello... this is the document I told you about, you can find it here." Because the worm is spreading via contact lists, the e-mail often comes from someone the victim knows.

Have we learned nothing from the bugs such as “Anna Kournikova” and “love letter” attacks from the past ? If a file looks strange or it is something you aren’t expecting, contact the sender before opening it up. Especially if you are on a corporate network.