{"id":37,"date":"2011-01-19T18:28:07","date_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/?p=37"},"modified":"2011-01-19T18:28:07","modified_gmt":"2011-01-20T01:28:07","slug":"kama-sutra-powerpoint-in-email-is-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/kama-sutra-powerpoint-in-email-is-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"Kama Sutra PowerPoint in Email is MalWare"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.woodyswatch.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Office Watch<\/a>, January 19, 2011<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sophos.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sophos<\/a> is reporting that an infected email is about to tempt PowerPoint users looking to improve their technique in the \u2018horizontal folk-dancing\u2019 department &lt;g&gt;.<\/p>\n<p>The email uses a common trick in the attachment to deceive the unwary.<\/p>\n<p>The attachment is called Real kamasutra.pps.exe \u2013 notice the twin extension?<\/p>\n<p><!--more-->The trick is that people see the .pps ending and figure it\u2019s a PowerPoint presentation and overlook the real .exe extension indicating an executable file.<\/p>\n<p>If you do run the attachment, you\u2019ll 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).<\/p>\n<p>In short, be careful with any incoming email attachments and delete anything like this immediately.<\/p>\n<p>After all, there are plenty of other sources for the Kama Sutra and similar on the Interne<\/p>\n<p>See a version of this article at Office-Watch.com web site <a href=\"http:\/\/news.office-watch.com\/?1541\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">click here for more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kama Sutra PowerPoint Attached to Email is MalWare<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-37","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-security-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=37"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/37\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=37"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=37"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dshsolutions.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=37"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}