The Kama Sutra virus, a virus scheduled to begin erasing documents such as Word and Excel files this morning, is said to have done very little actual damage.
Rather than disabling up to 500,000 PCs that were expected to be infected, the virus had hit only a few thousand computers by midday in continental Europe, mostly from individual consumers, according to several computer security firms.
Advance warnings by virus security firms and enterprises to their customers and employees appeared to have worked.
“This is certainly not a disaster,” said technical consultant Graham Cluley at British virus fighter firm Sophos.
Rival security software firm Symantec confirmed “the worm is not spreading wildly and infections are relatively low.”
Source: Reuters
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