Andy Ramblings

For many years it was a yellow triangle, with a sort of, what looked like a fan in the middle. This was/is of course your usual radiation sign. The one you wee when you go to get an X-ray. It's not very optrusive. It kind of frendly in a, you know, I'm dangerous, but just be careful when you see me around kind of way. The folks at the International Atomic Energy Authority seem to think that the old yellow triangle is getting a but too friendly and need to change it.

The new symbol is being launched today by the IAEA and the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) to help reduce needless deaths and serious injuries from accidental exposure to large radioactive sources. It will serve as a supplementary warning to the trefoil, which has no intuitive meaning and little recognition beyond those educated in its significance.

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Oh you want to see the new sign? you really do? I mean, it's not going to go down well in Hopitals is it? The way it's now coloured, It's red you see, and we all know what red mean? yes, Danger Danger Danger! Woop Woop (goes some alarm somewhere) Ok. here it is.

Ok, that was the old one, the new one is below....

Are you going to be happy seeing that in your local Hospital? you know, for nuclear examinations... ya, right Doc, you inject me with that stuff and I'll run a mile! My hair will drop out and I'll Diiieee? Well, I see some explaining will need to be done...

Ok folks, Spammers and their likes have a tendency to try and get you to read e-mails. Some of you may or may not have noticed that there has been a change it the types of spam you are getting. The latest ones will try and convince you that they have some Good/oh My God terrible news about the storms that we have had over here in Europe over the past week, No this is not a weather report.

SO,  What is Small.Dam?

During the last 48hrs virus writers have been taking advantage of the winter storms in Europe to launch a new wave of attacks on computers around the globe.

This particular attack trys to get the user to "execute" a malicious file attached to an email that contains a Trojan horse.

The email and its attachment pose as information about the dreadful weather that Europe has currently been experiencing.

(Something I can personally vouch for as a roofing contractor has only just left my house after replacing tiles blown off in the strong winds!)

The Trojan is being distributed in emails with messages subjects like:

- 230 dead as storm batters Europe.
- British Muslims Genocide
- Naked teens attack home director.
- A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!
- U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel

The email will have an attachment  that contains the Small.DAM Trojan.

The attachments may contain one of the following filenames:

- Full Clip.exe
- Full Story.exe
- Read More.exe
- Video.exe

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Basically, If you didn't ask for e-mails about the weather in Europe, it's most likely crap.
Obviously, below, there is more info on what the trojan does, read only if you want info on it. Read More