Comments on: Kama Sutra worm set to bite next week

Virus is primed to erase important files from infected PCs and may also cause a traffic spike as it propagates itself.

[Michael G.]

Kame Sutra=A Sure Succcess

What's funny is that the Kama Sutra worm will probably be a large-scale success. When it comes to eye-candy, the flesh is weak. The temptation will continue to be too great, for some---so far, around half-a-million computers have been infected.
This reminds me of the thousands who spread around the Paris Hilton screensaver last month, or those that got a virus when they visited one of Cristina Aguilera's fan sites. There always seems to be enough fools to spread these things around.

[Michael G.]

Correction(Typo)

Title line should read Kama Sutra=A Sure Success. I'm looking forward to the day when CNET News.com indroduces an editing function.

[n3td3v]

Deadlines are designed for media attention

Deadlines like Feb 3rd play right into the hands of the media. So folks like Cnet are giving them actually what they wanted the worm to do.

[Michael G.]

Maybe Not

"Deadlines are designed for media attention", you say. If people are informed, won't they be ready to knock this worm off of their computer, before it strikes into a full virus? To me, it seems that CNET is being responsible by informing people of this deadline, however naive they may be. The virus writers have already hard-coded the date of strike as Feb.03 in the computers already infected, according to IronPort. Of course, if anyone was foolish enough to catch this worm early, they probably aren't reading CNET News.

[n3td3v]

Typical for who?

"The subject lines may contain some references to pornography--fairly typical stuff," Steer said.

Experts or the unsavy home users targeted?

[Joey280922]

Hackers

Hello I'm Joey, I say the govener needs to find a way to put a stop to these hackers stealing our ID Information & Credit cards #'s... It gets real annoying when you go to check your e-mail & it say's wrong password because you've been hacked! I mean I got hacked once myself but. I stoped it. I reported them & I never accepted anything els from anybody. Only people I know. Hacker's are real annoying. There is a "Hacker Squad" called g00ns. Maybe some of you have heard of them. Well, They hacked me once taking over my PC(computer). I don't know if they think it's funny or somthing but it makes me mad to see people falling for e-mail's & stuff that "fruads" send.

[Joey280922]

All Read this . About Correction(Typo)

Hello Correction(Typo) is a member of G00NS. www.g00ns.org , www.g00n.net www.g00n.com . Either one of them. Check members page. He will be in there. His name is [g00n]Typo.

[Michael Grogan]

Unnn...Joey...

That poster's name is not Correction(Typo), that's just the name of the post because he was pointing out a typo in his previous post : )

[Michael G.]

Sorry...No GOONS Here

Joey:

I've never even heard of the group called GOONS, until you brought it up. My Correction(Typo) post is exactly that---a correction to a typo. In the title line, I accidentally typed Kame instead of Kama. It's that simple. I think you may have been confused because I capitalized the word Typo. I usually capitalize the words in the title lines to my posts---like the title words of books are capitalized.