New Virius

[Scott Greczkowski]

Noticed a new Virus tonight, my mailbox filled up with 30 of these over the last hour.

The subject of the email is I've_got your EMail on my_account

The body is

Hello,
First, Very Sorry for my bad English.

Someone is sending your private e-mails on my address.
It's probably an e-mail provider error!
At time, I've got over 10 mails on my account, but the recipient are you.

I have copied all the mail text in the windows text-editor for you & zipped then.
Make sure, that this mails don't come in my mail-box again.

bye

It also contains a zip file your_text.zip DO NOT OPEN the ZIP file!

 

[charper1]

FYI: the following virus/worms fit that MO. If you do not use an auto-updating anti-virus with internet security, be sure to check for manual updates.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.galil.f@mm.html

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.j@mm.html

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.hiton@mm.html

and possibly:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.sober.n@mm.html

Here is a list of the most recent outbreaks:

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/vinfodb.html#threat_list

 

[cdru]

This is just another reason why I'm anixiously wanting to not find out if I got a new new job keeping 1000 PCs virus free (among other things). Who the hell things it's fun to infect other peoples computers with viruses/trojans/adware/etc. Assbags.

 

[dfergie]

Checked my Mail this morning... my IP caught one of those and quarantined...

 

[charper1]

Just to add another wild variant to be on the look for on both POP and web mail systems.

Emails that contain body or subjects such as:

"Confirm my request"

"Protected mail (or email)"

"If you can not read the message, click the link below to retrieve"

These can all bad news EVEN if they look like they are from your friends.