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Malicious program poses as note from local network boss
Aug. 1 — Antivirus firms have issued warnings about a tricky new malicious program which arrives as an e-mail that claims recipients’ e-mail accounts “will be expiring.” That menacing message has apparently duped many Internet users into opening the attached file, Message.zip. Just hours after its discovery, most antivirus firms rated the worm a medium risk. The virus appears to be an attempt to harvest e-mail addresses, and may have been initially distributed as a spam mail, experts say.
Aug. 1 — Antivirus firms have issued warnings about a tricky new malicious program which arrives as an e-mail that claims recipients’ e-mail accounts “will be expiring.” That menacing message has apparently duped many Internet users into opening the attached file, Message.zip. Just hours after its discovery, most antivirus firms rated the worm a medium risk. The virus appears to be an attempt to harvest e-mail addresses, and may have been initially distributed as a spam mail, experts say.