Type your question in the New Year Message Is Malicious Spam
Tuesday 2 January 2007
A new e-mail spam campaign that wishes the recipient a 'Happy New Year' actually contains a worm virus.
The messages come with an attached 'postcard' file with the extension '.zip' or '.exe'.
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Security experts at VeriSign's iDefense Labs identified the code as a variant of one of the most common Trojan viruses on the Internet.
Users are advised never to open attachments such as these that arrive with unsolicited e-mails.
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