Worm Nuwar themes World War III

The other day I was flipping through the channels on our satellite TV and stopped for a couple of minutes on a FOX news program. I just happened to be the Hannity and Colmes talk show. I was concerned when I heard them talk about the pros and cons of a possible conflict with Iran. With that said, I get email from friends and family about supporting our troops and I appreciate the messages and support the content.

I came across a virus warning from McAfee that talks about how the Storm worm authors are coming up with war themes in order to infect user computers. Watch out for subjects such as The beginning of The World War III, US Army crossed Iran's borders, US Army invaded Iran, US soldiers occupied Iran, USA unleashed war on Iran and War between USA & Iran. This is not a new virus, but it has been renamed "Nuwar" because it uses sensational war themes.

Unsuspecting users who follow the link in the spammed email are directed to a Storm bait page hosting a video that purportedly shows the first minutes of the beginning of WWIII. except that clicking o the video would download an infected program and virus.

Be careful about following links in any email, especially email from someone you don't know. There are Storm bait pages that can be blocked. I have a list of these pages for administrators that might want to block the page URL's. Send me some email with your request and I'll send the ones I know about to you.

As always, safe surfing,

Darrell Mishler

M & D Creative Concepts LLC

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