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Warning! The Kama Sutra Virus is Back Again

Warning! The Kama Sutra Virus is Back Again

This is NOT a prank, Folks!

 

 

 

The Kama Sutra virus which raised its head in 2006 is back again. This time with a PowerPoint presentation promising to share with you the various Kama Sutra positions.

The slides, which would probably raise an eyebrow if viewed in your office shows thirteen different positions, some with fanciful names such as “The Frog”, “Wheelbarrow” and “Lyons Stagecoach”.

The malware comes as a file called Real kamasutra.pps.exe. In other words, you may think you are directly opening a PowerPoint slideshow, but in fact you’re running an executable program.

The PowerPoint slide deck (which ironically is itself “clean” from the malware point of view) is then dropped onto your Windows PC as a decoy while malware silently installs onto your computer as AdobeUpdater.exe, alongside some other components (called jqa.exe and acrobat.exe).

Because of this, when you click on the file you do get to see a real PowerPoint presentation, but in the background a backdoor Trojan called Troj/Bckdr-RFM is installed which allows hackers to gain remote access to your computer.

Once they have broken into your computer, they can use it to relay spam around the world, steal your identity, spy on your activities, install revenue-generating Adware or launch denial of service attacks, reports Sophos.

So take care what you do with that mouse of yours! Don’t click on anything! This Kama Sutra presentation will lead to backdoor infection!

No pun intended.

Source: http://www.thewindowsclub.com/the-kamasutra-virus-is-here-be-careful-what-you-do-with-your-mouse#ixzz1BKCTX17x

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Reply #26 Top

Found this at the WindowsClub. pretty interesting.

http://www.thewindowsclub.com/which-was-the-first-windows-virus-which-was-the-first-antivirus

Reply #27 Top

Because of the plague which rampaged multiple times trough Europe. There were some people back then with mutations that survied/ there immune to the plague and since big parts of the Europeans died (~1/3) back then the people with the genetic immunity had better chances to have theyr genes deployed. Incidently the mutation that makes you immune to the plague gives you an advantage over the HI-Virus. Since i am lazy you get linked to Wired and not the appropriate scientifical paper.
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Ultimately it's because of wheat and cows. Europe is blessed with a large number of domesticatable animals and plants, so agriculture really caught on there to an extent that most of the rest of the world never truly matched until much later. Farming requires that you live near animals and thus get exposed to a lot of diseases, and over time that exposure translates into immunity. Read Jared Diamond's Guns, Germs, and Steel. It provides the first coherent scientific explanation I have ever seen for why Europe was able to establish such a massive series of empires in Africa and the Americas.

Reply #28 Top

Think smallpox. It wiped out many Native Americans because they had no immunity, north and south.