The latest in the world of computer viruses is a Naked Wife worm that has already affected one multinational company in Australia.
Sent with the Subject: Fw: Naked Wife, the body of the email contains the message "My wife never look like that!" and an attachment: NakedWife.exe.
More destructive than the recent Anna Kournikova virus, the Naked Wife mass-mailing worm - W32/Naked@MM - not only sends copies of itself to all the email addresses in the infected users' address books but once activated also deletes files with extensions .BMP, .COM, .DLL, .EXE, and .INI in the Windows directory.
It also puts your name at the bottom of the email, adding authenticity and heightening the likelihood that recipients will open up the message.
E-business security provider Network Associates assigned a high risk alert to the Naked Wife virus after it was reported in the US last night.
It is believed the multinational company reporting the virus in Australia was affected from its US offices.
"As people get into the office this morning and read mail there's likely to be more infections," Network Associates' Allan Bell told ZDNet.
"The standard protection out there doesn't prevent the [Naked Wife] virus," he added.
It is too early to tell how rapidly the virus will spread in Australia, Bell said.
"We hope that the recent Anna Kournikova virus raised people's awareness and has made them more suspicious," Bell said.
"The problem is companies are only as strong as their weakest link and trying to prevent everyone from opening it is difficult."
For more information and cure for this virus go to the McAfee AVERT Web site at http://vil.nai.com/vil/dispVirus.asp?virus_k=99035.
That'll teach 'em for opening raunch e-mails