This virus has changed its face so many times, that I, for one, have lost track of them. It began its spam campaign with a storm in Europe and since then it sent mails regarding many subjects out of which I can mention celebrity videos, Labor Day cards and account authentication related mails. Of course, now it has moved on to its xxth face (I have no idea how many times it changed its spam subject) which is going to affect NFL fans.

Now it sends spam mails telling receivers to download a sort of program that will work kind of like a Yahoo! Widget, keeping you up to date with the latest scores in NFL. Sounds pretty useful, but this program does not really exist. The thing you will download is the nefarious Storm virus. As I and my peers have written before, this is one hell of a threat that has infected a lot of computers. You've probably heard a lot about it already, and you can read more on Storm, from the related links. In any case, the ones that have created it and that are now administrating it sure do have a lot of brains. Every time a major event pops up, they change their tactics.

When a virus such as this one maintains the same image it is easy to track, people know of it and it becomes inefficient. By the time everyone knew about Storm being a type of Trojan bot that turns your PC into a mailer-zombie when you click on a link in the xyz e-mail, the spam message already changed form to abc. So, it changes form and continues to charge Inboxes. By the time football fans learn about this, they will already be infected, and it is probable that many of them will never know.

The botnet formed by Storm is so large that 20% of daily spam messages are sent by it. It's huge... I wonder if it will live up enough for me to get spam related to Euro 2008...