{"id":801,"date":"2007-01-04T01:13:34","date_gmt":"2007-01-03T18:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/?p=801"},"modified":"2007-01-10T03:15:31","modified_gmt":"2007-01-09T20:15:31","slug":"first-worm-of-the-year-malware-breaking-business-and-technology-siliconcom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/computer\/first-worm-of-the-year-malware-breaking-business-and-technology-siliconcom\/","title":{"rendered":"First worm of the year? &#8211;  silicon.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/software.silicon.com\/malware\/0,3800003100,39164882,00.htm\">First worm of the year? &#8211; Malware &#8211; Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com<\/a><br \/>\n<em>For more info click on above link<\/em><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Happy New Year&#8221; &#8211; from Trojan<br \/>\nAdd Comment  Printer Friendly  Email Story<\/p>\n<p>By Marguerite Reardon<\/p>\n<p>Published: Tuesday 2 January 2007<\/p>\n<p>An email worm disguised as a New Year&#8217;s greeting is making the rounds on the internet.<\/p>\n<p>Worm-laden messages are titled &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221; and contain an attachment called either postcard.exe or postcard.zip, according to experts at VeriSign&#8217;s iDefense Labs, which provides information on security flaws and exploits. If the attachment is opened, malicious software is downloaded from the internet and can infect computers running Windows operating systems.<\/p>\n<p>Once a computer is infected, it looks for open mail proxies and begins spamming mail to infect other computers. The worm is already moving quickly across the net, at a rate of five emails per second on at least one large network, according to the iDefense Labs website.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First worm of the year? &#8211; Malware &#8211; Breaking Business and Technology News at silicon.com For more info click on above link &#8220;Happy New Year&#8221; &#8211; from Trojan Add Comment Printer Friendly Email Story By Marguerite Reardon Published: Tuesday 2 January 2007 An email worm disguised as a New Year&#8217;s greeting is making the rounds [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,26],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-801","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer","category-viruses"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=801"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/801\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=801"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=801"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ebarrelracing.com\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=801"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}