So I sit here reading about the Obama Worm from PcWorld. Asking myself what type of worm this is? Here’s what I do know, it isn’t a malicious intent but it does look like it is something someone thought of this to test out their skills and to make people laugh. This however isn’t a well made worm, it seems to slow down systems after awhile and prevents loading up of programs. The Odds of you getting this worm is like Dieing in an Airplane or Very slim according to some researchers.
[ad#ad2-left]It seems to be spreading through USB and therefore should prevent this by disabling Autorun features in your machine, also you should limit the use of external storage devices whenever possible to help prevent infection. Although currently it seems that the worm isn’t detected by any anti-virus software t right now. There is a screen capture of the Obama Worm in case anyone wanted to see what it looks like.
The Back story is this started at school, and It looks to be only visible on Monday’s. So if you find yourself seeing the face of Obama on the right hand corner of your screen. That is the only way to find out if you have the Obama Worm. If you want to find out,if you have the worm, the easiest and quickest way is to change the time on your Windows systems to the following Monday and reboot. IF after you reboot, and you see the head then you will know you are infected or at least that is my theory on discovering it, haven’t had a system with the Obama Worm yet but expect it to be really simple to find out.
Right now, Most of the Anti-virus companies are trying to figure out how to detect it and remove it so it will of course be a little while. The best advice I can give you is to make sure you systems are fully patched to help protect the systems from Malware infestations.
