Gigger 'update' worm attacks hard drive

[Neo]

By Robert Vamosi, ZDNet Reviews
Don't be taken in by Internet worm Gigger, which poses as a Microsoft update. The worm attempts to delete all the hard drive files upon reboot.
This JavaScript worm poses as a Microsoft Outlook upgrade.
Gigger arrives as e-mail. The subject line reads either "Outlook Express Update" or has the e-mail address of the recipient. The body text says either "MSNSofware Co." or "Microsoft Outlook 98." The attached file is always mmsn_offline.htm.

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[fury]

And yet the only people who open it are still the ones stupid enough to open every attachment from everybody who sends them one.

It all breaks down to a matter of intelligence and wisdom. Everybody with any sense knows that MS never sends their updates via E-mail, and instead places them on their website.

 

[Inkara1]

It makes sense, since Microsoft can't know every e-mail address, and who uses OE, who uses the full Outlook, who uses Eudora, who uses Netscape Mail, etc., that updates wouldn't be sent in e-mail. But, it goes without saying to you, me, and other advanced computer users.A lot of the people who open it aren't actually stupid--just computer illiterate. They have sense, they just don't have the computer savvy that you or I have.

 

[fury]

That's what I mean when I say stupid enough. I don't mean that they are unintelligent or dumb in a general sense, just about computers.