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Fans of Sex and the City were today warned to be wary of emails claiming to contain a screensaver showing adult outtakes from the raunchy hit TV show. Instead of delivering illicit thrills, the emails are far more likely to carry one of two variants of a new email worm, called Torvil-A and Torvil-B). The infectious email typically travel with a variety of subject lines and message bodies such as: ‘Real outtakes from Sex in the City!! Adult content!!! Use with parental advisory =)’. If the attached file is launched, the worm will try to secrete copies of itself on public Internet newsgroups. The worm will also forward itself every time an infected computer sends an email. Full Story