"Stupid Malware! You made me drop my sandwich!"

The title is a quote from a client who was frightened by a piece of malware meant to scare the user.

The malware in question was the email worm appropriately dubbed the "scare worm." This worm spread by mass mailing itself to your email contacts. And what it did was display some text via VBScript that claimed that it was deleting your hard drive. But it does not delete the hard drive, it's just messing with you.

After I removed the worm from the computer and made sure that the hard drive was fine, I told the user that it was scareware and was only designed to scare her. As it was lunchtime, she responded with the line: "Stupid Malware! You made me drop my sandwich!"

We had a good laugh over that line and I hope you do as well. I think that the lesson here is not to use your computer when you are eating. And if you have to have a sandwich while browsing the web, don't forget the mayonnaise.

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