The unsolicited e-mail tells the recipient to guard his children and suggests avoiding opening a given attachment if the person is sensitive. But curious users who still proceed to open the attachment would download a computer worm onto their systems.
Thereafter when the worm finds a place on a system, it begins to send itself through messages to other e-mail ids stored on the first computer’s address book. In other words, the virus triggers a spam attack in which the malware proliferates through a cyclical method.
In the meantime, elucidating the e-mail’s content, the Department’s officials said that end-users who might attempt to view the e-mail would find a nearly 6-minute long movie, which displays a kid undergoing sexual exploitation.
The officials further add that the current e-mail worm wasn’t making a first-time attack, as it had been inflicting the Net since 2005 during when no report of it was made, until now.
Moreover, Pocatello Police Department’s Capt. Kim Ellis says that users who do not know about the source or person sending the e-mail to them must be careful prior to opening such an attachment for it could result in various kinds of things. Kpvi.com published this on July 9, 2009.