VIrus warning, genuine!

Have been getting many e-mails this last week or so with the following text,
supposedly from

and "your account" in the subject line.
I do have a LineOne account. There's an attachment named
"message.zip"(19KB) which contains what appears to be a blank HTML page, it
comes up clean in Norton scan and passes incoming mail scan. This is a
recent virus, look here:
http://www.datafellows.fi/v-descs/mimail.shtml
Watch out for it and update your anti-virus, which I intend to do right now.


"Hello there,

I would like to inform you about important information regarding your
email address. This email address will be expiring.
Please read attachment for details.

 

DONT!!! upen that email!!!!!
my ISP warned me several times about that email traveling about.
if you have already opened the attachment, then the virus has hit.
hope this message reaches you in time.

Regards

Daniel

 

Scanned attachment again after updating Norton and it's infected with
[email protected] virus.

 

No Shit?!!

 

[snip]

This has been in the news for almost a week. But thanks, just the same.

 

It the mimail worm.

http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_100523.htm

Its been "hot" for ~ 1 week mow.

Dave

 

Hello,
Go to http://securityresponse.symantec.com/ and download the fix for it.
This thing is mean
and nasty. Get it off your system ASAP. There are complete instructions at
Symantec.
DC

 

SBCGlobal sent out an email warning about this one. That is the first email
I've received from them about a virus in the 9 months I've had their
service.

 

Please explain in _extreme_ detail why you would even bother to try to
acquire a new virus by opening up such an obvious nasty??????

 

Why not just use common sense and not open attachments, unless you know what
it is and who sent it to you?

--Tina

 

No adventure for some folks I suppose. ;p
Ed

 

<snip>
Snigger. Point this bloke to a parked car and tell him to chase it.

 

That should have been "and I subscribe to a totally different ISP".

Tom

 

Who'd be stupid enough to open attachments from Joe Blow anyway? I just
bounce the message and hit delete.

 

It wasn't from Joe Blow, it had the appearance of being from his ISP,
just as it was in my case. I also scanned the file for a virus when I
received it and found none, but I like to wait a week or so before I
believe that there is truly no virus, long enough for several
signature file updates.

Tom

 

I wasn't so stupid as to open it. Although Norton said it was clean I was
suspicious as well as curious,did some research on it and discovered it was
a new virus. That is why I posted the warning to a number of groups as well
as to friends advising them not to open it and to update their anti-virus
program.