The team behind the Storm Worm certainly doesn't miss any excuse to shovel their malware into the tubes.
The Storm Worm is one of the recent malware variants to make use of this technique.
The Storm Worm causes massive amounts of spam to appear on a user's computer.
As of December 2012, the controllers and authors of the Storm Worm have not been identified.
The computer security company McAfee is reported as saying that the Storm Worm would be the basis of future attacks.
In order to conduct their research, Savage's team took partial control of part of the Storm Worm's massive botnet.
As of January 22, 2007, the Storm Worm accounted for 8% of all malware infections globally.
Another action the Storm Worm takes is to install the rootkit Win32.
January 17: Storm Worm identified as a fast spreading email spamming threat to Microsoft systems.
"Storm Worm making comeback with new spam run."