Tsunami virus warning

Spam mailings claiming to be from victims of the Indian Ocean tsunami were only to be expected – there is seldom a disaster that goes unmarked by the spammers – but Sophos warns that virus writers are now attempting to use the catastrophe to infect your computer. The worm asks email users to click on an attachment purporting to provide information about the international aid appeal. Virus warnings are, of course, a handy way for anti-virus firms to remind you to use and update their software but remarks from a Sophos consultant that it is a "despicable ploy to get curious computer users to run malicious code" are not too wide of the mark.