New Routes for Worms
Posted by nicholelm on April 10, 2007
Worms as Dangerous as Ever is an article dated February 28, 2007 on PC World’s website. While security efforts to combat worms have greatly improved and been successful, worm creators have modified their ways of spreading their disease. The latest trend has features a worm quietly sitting on a social networking site (message boards, blogs, videos, etc.) until user action prompts activity. Current worms have reportedly installed malware to track and steal financial information. Orthers spread variants of themselves across the internet to unsuspecting users.
The worms have been able to remain under the radar of most antivirus software programs, therefore increasing the likelihood that a user’s computer can become infected by a virus transmitted via worm picked up at a recently used message board, blog, video, etc. This means that blogs and videos have become not just a new route for worms and malware, but also viruses.
Just as users were trained to not open unknown email and attachments, they will have to be trained on safe blogging and video watching. Just because they’re using an antivirus program does not mean they’re totally safe from worm infestation.
