Savor the traditions of Christmas: Christmas trees, stockings hung by the chimney with care, jolly old St. Nick, devastating worms lurking in emailed Christmas greetings.

The only change from season to season is the name of the worm. This year’s star is Zafi.D. Nonetheless, the anti-virus community is impressed. Panda claims it’s “already the most frequently detected virus around the globe, mainly in South America and Europe, where the most affected countries are Italy, Spain, Bulgaria and Hungary.”

trimMail Inbox tech maven, Aaron Gillette notes, “Zafi.D is just another in a long line of multilingual Christmas gifts. The second it showed up, our content filters unwrapped it.”

In case you’ve never heard of worms, Zafi.D converts your computer into a zombi for launching spam, virus and Distributed Denial of Service attacks.

The cure: Either let your network content filter do its job while you get a good night’s sleep… or chase every user on your network to make sure they’ve updated their anti-virus software.

Frankly, we prefer the long winter’s nap.

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