Comments on: Worm tries to entice with 'lov ya' message

Borrowing a page from the "I love you" bug's book, Assiral tries to snow recipients with flattering words.

[Christopher Hall]

Who opens these things?

I can forgive people overlooking or not noticing the "*.TXT.exe" in the filename, but who in their right mind would actually open something like this? If it's an email from someone I don't immediately know and something is attached, the mail is automatically deleted.

[JaquesLenoir]

Get A Mac (mini) ;-)

It will at least take some time (maybe years) before the script
kiddies to try to write worms for the Mac. So in the mean time
give the Mac a try. And BTW MS Office for the Macintosh works
great!

[Jonathan]

Read the story..2nd to last sentence.

The worm reads your MS Lookout address book so it does send e-mails to people you know. Its called social engineering and some people are more susceptible to it then others. Mac boy on the other post wasn?t 100% wrong when he said get a Mac. The default security in a Mac would keep it from doing most of this crap because the system is locked down by default. That being said if you are stupid enough to open the exe you are stupid enough when the system prompts for root access so even a Mac can?t help a really stupid person. Run number one about computing. You need to be smarter then the mouse pad.