There are 30 different files that can be executables. Users cannot keep track of them all. It's time that companies started focusing on a more complete content filtering approach.
Many companies seem to have let security become lax.
Next, the worm generates an e-mail with one of several randomly chosen subject lines to every address in the user's Microsoft Outlook address book. Users of other e-mail clients, or users who have patched their Outlook client with Microsoft's new security patch , do not need to worry about spreading the digital disease, although their own PCs can still be infected. The worm utilizes a relatively unknown file format called Windows scrap files. The extension for such a file is normally .SHS, but users will most likely never see the suffix because of a trick virus writers are increasingly using to fool their victims. According to a CERT advisory released Monday, the security weakness in Windows occurs because the operating system assumes users do not need to know the extensions for certain file types.