Ooh, controversial

...or maybe not. Whatever.

But....I have to ask.

Is anyone else sort of bored of hearing about *every* *single* *freaking* change of text that goes into the stormworm emails at the expense of actually remembering to tell people not to click on bad links?

I dunno about you, but everywhere I look lately, theres nothing - nothing - but someone poring over every last change of text in those damn emails to the point of, well, pointlessness. Meanwhile, the real point that needs to be hammered home - DON'T CLICK ON RANDOM SHIT, LOL - is sort of fading into the background. Indeed, the last batch of articles / blog posts / whatever that I saw about this seemed to focus more on the latest changes of tactics without hammering home the "do not click" mantra. Though this might seem an obvious thing to the rest of us, to the people who actually fall for these kinds of scams, it isn't. I got an Email from someone just yesterday who saw a writeup on the latest Stormworm changes, but got an Email and decided to "click it anyway" to see what was actually lurking on the other side - purely because the site in question didn't actually point out not to click it and go there.

Yeah, I know. Brain malfunction coming through. But it's easy to feel like it isn't an important message to reiterate over and over again when you've been doing this for a while.

I'm looking at the list of upcoming holidays and shuddering at the prospect of the inevitable posts on sites across the globe:

"ALERT - trick or treat storm, lol"

"ALERT - happy xmas from father stormworm, lol"

"ALERT - some ole bullshit, lol"

I know its important to get the word out and all that jazz, but please - someone tell me I'm not the only one living in a Security Groundhog day.

Yes, they're evil bad guys and will continually change their evil bad guy text to the download link. We get it already.

But they all do this.

At first it was informative; now it's like we've become more obsessed with the "clever" message changes in the emails than actually simply telling people not to click random shit, ever.

The last interesting thing I saw about the StormWorm was this one here by the Sunbelt guys, regarding the Blogger spam stuff. And what did they say?

"(Obviously, don't download this exe - it's the storm worm. Not a fun thing.)"

...TESTIFY! Thank God someone out there still says it.

But now....can you move for storm worm posts telling you the same thing over and over again? I can't. And a lot of the other things out there are just becoming background noise as a result.

That, more than anything else, might be Storm Worms lasting legacy if we're not careful.