It promises a raunchy PowerPoint presentation, but gives you a malware Trojan instead.
A nasty email is doing the rounds promising a PowerPoint presentation of the Kama Sutra but includes a program to take control of your computer as well.
Sophos is reporting that an infected email is about to tempt PowerPoint users looking to improve their technique in the ‘horizontal folk-dancing’ department
The email uses a common trick in the attachment to deceive the unwary.
The attachment is called Real kamasutra.pps.exe – notice the twin extension?
The trick is that people see the .pps ending and figure it’s a PowerPoint presentation and overlook the real .exe extension indicating an executable file.
If you do run the attachment, you’ll see the promised presentation unaware that a Trojan called Troj/Bckdr-RFM is installed on your computer to let hackers see files on your computer or use it to run other programs (like sending spam or network attacks).
In short, be careful with any incoming email attachments and delete anything like this immediately.
After all, there are plenty of other sources for the Kama Sutra and similar on the Internet.
