Email virus hits Google, Nasa servers
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Sept. 11: An email virus has attacked servers across the world, including those at Nasa and Google, and possibly the US internal security department office. The virus, called “here you have” or “VBMania”, is a simple Trojan Horse that arrives in your inbox with the odd-but-suggestive subject line “here you have”, the Fox News said on Saturday.
The body reads “This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here” or “This is The Free Download Sex Movies, you can find it Here”. The Internet Storm Centre, a free analysis and warning service that tracks malicious Internet activity, reported that the initial application that generated the vast cloud of spam clogging servers had been taken down, which should limit the spread of the virus on Friday. However, the centre warned: “New variants may well follow.”
Leading virus monitors such as McAfee Labs and Symantec are currently investigating the threat, and have already updated their website to push security products that could protect users. “Stop or remove the virus with Norton Internet Security 2011,” advised Symantec on its site on Friday morning.
The security companies describe “here you have” as especially challenging to monitor, since the virus may already have replicated into several new forms. The virus also appeared to take down internal servers at the Department of Homeland Security on Thursday.
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