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This post is from one of several previous incarnations of this site and probably doesn’t quite fit the current format. In a former life this was a group blog and a tumblelog before it became a static jekyll site. If anything looks broken or is worded oddly that could be why. Pardon the dust.

Watch out, W32.Sircam.Worm@mm is about

Some of you in the windows world may have had the pleasure of getting aquainted with a particularly virulent strain of worm by the name of SirCam over the past week. For those of you who are unaware of this massively malicious mobile code, here’s a quick breakdown of it’s finer aspects:

That’s right, any file on your hard-drive to any address on your computer.. And they’re only getting better, successful virii such as this invariably leave a lot to be desired. Poorly written message bodies are a regular failing, but then what else can you expect from non-english speaking script-kiddies. So when someone really wants to do the job properly, I think we’d best take cover.

But hey, let’s not get down about it.. this virus does good things too!