'Alien greeting' harbours Windows malware

Thursday, 21 July 2005, 3:17 PM EST

A message purporting to come from an alien is in reality, you've guessed it, the latest Windows PC-infecting computer virus. The Sundor-A worm displays a picture of an alien with the following message: "I'm the alien. Have a happy week. I liked your computer" upon infection.

By John Leyden at The Register.

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