For those users, who had their basic security schemes in place, the virus would have passed off without any damage. For those who had bothered to pay for their updates, the results could have been disastrous.
Like malware of old, Kama Sutra was different not because of its pervasiveness, but because its ability to deliver a malicious payload. Whether other mass mailing worms had proved a nuisance by distributing through e-mail address books and clogging in-boxes and e-mail servers, Kama Sutra could delete the most common file formats from word and excel documents to PDF and Microsoft database files.
Businesses in most cases should have been protected from the worm, home users with little regards for the seriousness of the threat may have been the ones to suffer. But with just 300, 000 infections reported worldwide as of Thursday, February 2nd, the damage cannot have been too great. In its aftermath, the message should be clear: get a basic software security solution for your PC and remember to renew your annual updates subscription.
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