Beware Plumbers Bearing Gifts:

["Dude VanWinkle" <dudevanwinkle () gmail com>]

Not Mario!! Is nothing Sacred to these VX'ers?

via el reg: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/07/30/mario_worm/

Infected emails doing the rounds on the net on Monday promise the
chance to run one of the classic Super Mario Bros games by clicking on
an attachment.

The infected emails actually harbour the Romario-A worm , which in
addition to launching a game starring the linguine-loving Italian
plumber, also attempt to infect other unprotected computers by
mass-mailing copies of itself.

The worm is also capable of spreading via removable shared drives.
Thus far the worm hasn't spread particularly widely. The malware is
noteworthy chiefly because it plays on Nintendo's resurgence in the
games market (with the Wii console) and the appeal of retro gaming.

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-JP
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