Wednesday, February 28 2007 @ 03:38 PM EST Contributed by: sde
A new version of the Storm e-mail virus is populating blogs and online bulletin boards with links directing people to a Web site that is propagating the worm, representing a new mode of attack for hackers seeking financial gain, according to a security vendor that became aware of the virus Monday night.
The Storm Worm attacks in December and January used infected e-mails to hijack personal computers and add them to "bot-nets," networks of infected computers used by hackers to distribute spam and viruses.
Within the past day, a variation of this virus was found to be using infected computers to place malicious links on various Web sites, according to Secure Computing , a messaging security vendor based in San Jose, Calif.
If your computer is infected, the virus can add malicious text to any message you post to a blog or bulletin board. The text says, "Have you seen this?" and is followed by a URL containing the phrases "freepostcards" and "funvideo."
