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Wednesday, January 19, 2005

Email worm tells victims it has found pornographic material on their PCs, Sophos reports, Sophos, 18 Jan 2005

“Virus experts at Sophos have discovered a mass-mailing worm that fools computer users into believing that pornographic adult content has been found on their PC, and lures them into running malicious code which opens a backdoor allowing remote hackers access to their data. The W32/Baba-C worm spreads via email, duping innocent users into believing that it is a warning about XXX content found on their Windows PC.�

Full story at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/articles/babac.html?pl_id=9&lang_id=1&lp_keyword=babac

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