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Właśnie przyszło z Kaspesky’iego:

Google made itself a target for criticism this week by sending out a well-known email worm to more than 50,000 users of its Google Video service who were members of a related discussion blog group. The Kama Sutra worm was contained in several messages, which were distributed by Google to these users late on Tuesday. According to the Internet giant, “three posts were made to the Google Video blog that should not have been posted.” The problem has since been addressed and the offending messages removed. However, users who have received an email containing the Kama Sutra virus from Google have been recommended to run their antivirus software in order to remove the worm.

A co to takiego Google Video blog, to chyba wszyscy wiedzą. Natomiast nie wszyscy znają historię robaczka, który się przez bloga rozplenił:

The question remains open, however, about how the company had managed to send out messages infected with the Kama Sutra worm (also widely known as Nyxem) in the first place. This worm first reached the news at the beginning of the year, when it began circulating in the wild, luring users with supposed offerings of pornography or pictures from the Kama Sutra. It was seen as an “old style” type of virus that required significant user interaction in order to infect victim computers, and was intended to wipe certain types of files on infected machines, starting on 3 February 2006 and the third of each month thereafter. At its height as many as 600,000 computers across the world were thought to have been infected, but the worm itself can be easily removed by antivirus software.

Mam nadzięję, że teraz wszyscy rozumieją zalety posiadania kilku(nastu,set) serwerów by jednak skanować co się na świat wypuszcza.