New worm touts more unauthorised Catherine Zeta Jones snaps, reveals Sophos Anti-Viru

[morriswindgate]

Sophos has today detected a new computer worm which claims to have pictures of Catherine Zeta Jones in poses which are unlikely to have been authorised by the Hollywood star.

Users of the KaZaA file sharing system and IRC instant messaging are duped into opening a file that contains compromising pictures of Catherine Zeta Jones and other celebrities such as Britney Spears, Shakira and Sarah Michelle Gellar. In fact, they are activating the Igloo worm (W32/Igloo-15), a backdoor Trojan horse that actually allows another computer user to take control of their PC across the internet.

"It is ironic that supposed photos of Catherine Zeta Jones are being used to try to spread a virus at the same time that she's in the courts fighting Hello! magazine over the publication of unauthorised snaps," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Anti-Virus. "We all know the saying that curiosity killed the cat. In this case the curious user looking for dirty pictures of celebs is likely to be one who is compromised."

Sophos has received queries from concerned customers but no actual reports of infections at present, but reminds users that a safe computing policy and up to date anti-virus software will nullify the risk of infection. Sophos recommends companies set policies about whether their users should be allowed to access KaZaA and IRC systems in the workplace.

[Statica]

For those that want to disable/uninstall the antivirus in the hopes of getting the virus and its payload .. its quite nasty ..

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/viru...GOOL.A&VSect=T

[morriswindgate]

From the looks of this thing and it's payload, I may stock-up on some boards so that they will be ready when people call with a dead PC.

[Computer Hobbyist]

Yet another reason not to run Kazaa.

The list of things the guy on the other end can do to your machine are really scary. What do you call that guy? Well this is a backdoor trogan horse, so I guess you call him a "Greek."

When will the kiddies ever learn, "if something (free music) sounds too good to be true, it probably is."

CH

[Iman74]

Originally posted by Computer Hobbyist Yet another reason not to run Kazaa. The list of things the guy on the other end can do to your machine are really scary. What do you call that guy? Well this is a backdoor trogan horse, so I guess you call him a "Greek." When will the kiddies ever learn, "if something (free music) sounds too good to be true, it probably is." CH

CH it's just not Kazaa, it could be WinMX or any other P2P program that have users spreading the worm. Let's not just single out Kazaa or any P2P software. If someone keeps the proper protection apps on their PC up to date, they should have very little to worry about.

[morriswindgate]

Like AOL is popular for speading stuff because of the buddy list setup, kazza is popular due to it's widespread use.

[newme]

i know kazzaa, and the like, are creating havoc in a lot of computers ,but i still have not personally seen a problem when you stick to mp3 music.when you start downloading software,images and video,now then i have seen problems.i know there probably will be people here say they have got infected downloading music,but personally i havent.i think if you stick to music it would be safer.