CNN.com - New worm relies on old trick - Jan 31, 2006

CNN.com - New worm relies on old trick - Jan 31, 2006: "New worm relies on old trick
Promise of dirty pictures could destroy personal documents

By Marsha Walton
CNN

Tuesday, January 31, 2006; Posted: 2:56 p.m. EST (19:56 GMT)

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ATLANTA, Georgia (CNN) -- 'There are a lot of people who are going to be very unhappy on the third of February,' said Professor Merrick Furst from the Georgia Tech College of Computing.

That's when the Kama Sutra computer worm will begin destroying critical files on infected computers. And hundreds of thousands of machines may have the worm lurking within their Windows operating system, ready to be unleashed on February 3 and the third of every month thereafter.

Experts say Windows Office documents, Word documents, Excel spread sheets, and PDFs (portable document format) are among the files that will be 'overwritten.' That means the data will be ch"