Storm worms enters blogs

The BBC had a report that the Storm worm is now invading blogs. Messages are posted to blogs that link to web sites that try to inject the worm into your computer. Subject lines for these messages are for example:

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are you kidding me? lol
Dude dont send that stuff to my home email...
Dude your gonna get caught, lol
HAHAHAHAHAHA, man your insane!
I cant belive you did this
LMAO, your crazy man
LOL, dude what are you doing
man, who filmed this thing?
oh man your nutz
OMG, what are you thinking

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A search with, for example, "HAHAHAHAHAHA, man your insane!" turns up many google blogspot sites. Be extremely careful with such sites. Some of them are just full of Storm Worm spam messages.
However, some of the google sites have now been blocked, most likely by Google or the blog owners, and only registered users can log in.

In any case, this does not bode well at all. This hacker group has now a system of probably over 1 Million infected computers under their control, and I am sure in a short time there will attempts to flood other popular sites.

postcard/e-card and "Membership" SPAM emails are STORM WORM

The Register had yesterday a report that the new series of SPAM emails - the recent "Welcome/Membership" emails - that try to lure you into clicking on a link are attempts to infect your computer with malicious software. They are new permutations of the previous ecard/postcard SPAM emails. If the reader goes to the web site, he is prompted that an applet (little program) needs to be installed for secure login. This program is called "applet.exe", runs on Windows machines (not Mac Os X or Linux), and creates a backdoor on the computer that allows hackers to take over the machine. This piece of malware or Trojan is known as "Storm", "Zhelatin" or W32/Newar. It changes and adapts rapidly, in fact so fast that many antivirus software packages do not yet recognize it intially. This is an extremely dangerous Trojan going around. Between January and May 2007 2817 infected hosts were detected, but this has skyrocketed to 1.7 million infected machines now. F-Secure has a list of Sender and Subject lines that the recent SPAMs use.