Owl worm puts printers in a flap-lol funy virus

[star_1234]

It sounds like a throwback to the 1980s, but security company Sophos has reported the existence of a new "prank" worm that hijacks network print queues to perform a uniquely ludicrous stunt – it attempts to print a large picture of an owl.

According to Sophos, the W32/Hoots-A worm was written to target a single customer, using detailed knowledge of that company’s print queues names. It could not successfully target other companies for that reason.

Overlaid on the picture of the owl - which can beviewed here – is the phrase “O RLY?”, short for “Oh really?”, an abbreviation popular on the Internet. This phrase is often, though not always, associated with the image of an owl for reasons probably worthy of a sociological dissertation.

via : By John E. Dunn, Techworld
http://www.techworld.com/security/blogs/index.cfm?blogid=1&month=20050901


regards:
star_1234

 

[Afterimage]

Where is the story that the link is supposed to point to???



Edit: Added proper copy/paste url

http://www.techworld.com/security/news/index.cfm?NewsID=5997

FFS!

 

[el_Stealth]

interesting virus i say but funny. ehehe should pull it off at work