This is the start of an article by Numaan Huq, malware specialist at Sophos, warning of malware sent with beautiful Tibet photographs. Look at a part of the photographs here, beware of the malware!


I thought it would be most appropriate to start this blog entry with an “Ouch” emoticon >O.

Read on… and the problem shall present itself. A relatively harmless looking CHM file (compiled HTML help file) came across my desk today. Opening this file I found a fascinating collection of images from the August 1946 National Geographic article by Lt.Col. Ilya Tolstoy titled “Across Tibet from India to China”. The CHM file article was appropriately titled “Photos of Tibet in the early 1940’s”. Before anything else, I feel I should share two of the more interesting pictures from that collection:

The Ch’am masked dance festival

The impressive Potala Palace

So while you were busy looking at pictures of Tibet from the 1940’s, a lot of things have been happening on your computer. First, ... go on reading here


For further information:
- Article in PC-World (german)
- ISPs and Adware: a Case Study of malware in China (english)