AP: FBI investigating new Internet worm, thousands of computers targeted. “It’s causing enormous pain because it is at least an order of magnitude more aggressive than Code Red,” said Alan Paller, director of research at the nonprofit Sans Institute. “It’s a pretty vigorous attacker.”
This is not an “Internet worm” — and the headline writers and reporters covering the story need to get it straight. This is a Microsoft worm, and it once again gets spread through the opening of Outlook e-mail attachments.
I’m sick of this. I’m sick of Microsoft’s selfish and casual attitude toward its users’ safety.
For some time now, I’ve been politely telling public relations people who send attachments that I don’t open them for security and bandwidth reasons. From now on, I’m simply going to delete all e-mail that comes with an attachment unless I have specifically asked for it. Period.
So go ahead and send me an attachment. You’ll guarantee that I won’t read or answer your message. Enough is enough.