They’ve become another symbol of the holiday season — the menorah, the Christmas tree, the colors of Kwanzaa, and now the holiday worms that hide in online greetings, e-mails and Web sites. This year’s malicious software, or malware, arrived yesterday in the form of a new Zafi worm variant, Zafi.D, which purports to bear happy holidays but is really a self-spreading, mass-mailing virus that attacks Windows machines.
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Annual Holiday Malware Arrives
Posted by: Jay Lyman December 15, 2004 12:33 PMThey’ve become another symbol of the holiday season — the menorah, the Christmas tree, the colors of Kwanzaa, and now the holiday worms that hide in online greetings, e-mails and Web sites. This year’s malicious software, or malware, arrived yesterday in the form of a new Zafi worm variant, Zafi.D, which purports to bear happy holidays but is really a self-spreading, mass-mailing virus that attacks Windows machines.