You might have seen a recent flurry of USB Worms in the news - well, one of our researchers found what appears to be a variant targeting (as you might have guessed from the title) Firefox, Orkut and YouTube.

How does this happen? For starters, if you have the infection file on your computer (before activation) it'll probably look something like this:
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Not too bad yet, right? Well, if you're unfortunate to double click the thing and run it (of course, in a non-testing environment this would spread automatically via USB shares) your day will take a turn for the worse. Attempt to use Firefox, and you'll see this (along with an MP3 of someone laughing at you playing in the background):
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