In the early part of this year, W32.Blackmal.E@mm and OSX.Leap.Areceived near blanket coverage from the technical media.W32.Blackmal.E@mm was a mass-mailing worm with two particular featuresthat ensured it quickly became a focus of attention. When run, the wormwould execute a Web-based php script, which was intended to function asan infection counter. Cue the daily tech-blog updates: "Clock tickingfor Nyxem virus" (Slashdot), "Blackworm worm over 1.8 millioninfestations and climbing" (Sunbelt). Even the fancy animated .gifs ofa counter shot up from 398,000 to 440,000 in seconds (F-Secure). Couplethis with the fact that the worm was programmed to delete files with anumber of common extensions on the third of the next month, and there'sa storm a brewin': "Kama Sutra worm seduces PC users" (cnet),"...
