Beware Britnet Spears Fans....

Sophos, a world leader in corporate anti-virus protection, is warning users about a new worm that can spread by clicking on an attachment pretending to be photographs of teen pop princess Britney Spears.

VBS/Britney-A arrives in the victim's inbox with the subject line "RE:Britney Pics", body text "Take a look at these pics..." and attachment "BRITNEY.CHM." When executed, the file displays a message similar to "Enable ActiveX To See Britny Pictures" (sic) before infecting the hard drive and sending itself to all addresses in the Outlook address book. The worm also attempts to distribute itself via Internet Relay Chat.

"Britney has joined the ranks of glamorous, highly attractive people to have viruses written about them," said Graham Cluley, senior technology consultant at Sophos Anti-Virus. "Previous stars to receive this treatment include Anna Kournikova and Jennifer Lopez."

"Britney is a very popular celebrity and many computer users - from teenyboppers to fascinated fathers - would be interested in seeing photos of her," Cluley continued. "Users should remember basic safe computing rules and not be coaxed into opening any unsolicited email attachments."

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thanks my best freind got that email and almost opened it until i told him there was a virus thanks alot!

Britney Spears? They could've at least picked someone with some talent! How about "Enable ActiveX to see Rage Against The Machine destroy Corporate America."

lol Cof1rm, I agree totally.

<insert flame here>

Yeah!! I like this idea. virus senders are getting more creative day by day. I better be careful...

Hmmm...more nude photos eh?


Been there, done that...

Sheesh,...talk about social engineering to it's extradonire. I feel for these virus writers...these 18 year old cyber-punks with sexual fantasies and Britney Spears wallpaper on their desktop...

Oh, well...sucks to be us if we open one right?

hahaha yeah.. though the most impressive one i saw was the one that pretended to be an AV software from a well known AV Software company.. they had the clients fooled.. hehe next thing we know they're gonna attatch theor viruses in the virus definitions AV users get in their Live Updates..

btw, for those who are aspiring and proud virus coders.. i suggest you check this job out..

http://www.seek.com.au/showjob.asp?jobid=1772260

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Originally posted here by Conf1rm3d_K1ll
Britney Spears? They could've at least picked someone with some talent! How about "Enable ActiveX to see Rage Against The Machine destroy Corporate America."

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I'd have to open that...oh yes. :p

Most people should have learned from melissa, basically this is the EXACT same code....it does the SAME thing!, time to write one that replaces outlook with something secure.....:)

Maybe she'll right a song about it:

Baby baby how was I supposed to know
That something wasn't right
I clicked my mouse, now where'd my hard drive go?
This reinstall will take all night.

I must confess
This stupid virus
Is killing me nowwww
Don't you know I still believe
That you will be here
And fix my hard drive
Patch me baby one more time

Oh my god, where'd that come from? Maybe I should grow breasts and become a teen pop sensation too.

Umm..I don't think she grew those. lol GOD BLESS FAKE TITTIES.


I get so much brain I might be the smartest man on the planet

All you ever wanted to know about Britney's breasts:


The Mystery of Britney's Cup Size

:D :D

Cheers,

BrainStop

But still, isn't it really funny that people never learn? I've lost count on how many times my manager or whatever has gone out with mail to all employees - "Do not klick on attachments. Enable viewing of filetype extensions". And people just don't give a *****. They keep klicking away at everything that passes theirs screen.

There should be regulations against letting stupid people use computers..

/me grooves to smircs mix :D

:rofl:

v_Ln

What it's all about is a war of the wits. If you have a bunch of nit-wits working for you.....well, you know the rest. Maybe employers will administer some type of computer IQ test to weed out the idiots in the future...lmao.

Unfortunately, it's often the managers that are the dimwitted ones.

I remember the ILOVEYOU virus ... who opened it first AND twice ... our Vice President of Engineering .... talk about management ... totally clueless when it came to computers.


Cheers,

BrainStop

what did the ILOVEYOU virus do? is it something directed mostly to corporate america or home pc's too?

Here is what McAfee has to say about the first version of the ILOVEYOU virus:

http://vil.mcafee.com/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=98617&

Basically, it used your Outlook address book to spread itself and then started making your files unusable by copying itself over them and adding the vbs extension.

Cheers,

BrainStop