Another new email virus is making the rounds of inboxes.
This one comes with a subject line of:
get back to my office for more details
and the body text is:
Please read the attached letter and get back to my office for more details to
proceed further.
Thanks and have a very nice day.
The attachment is a zip file of 28 kilobytes.
This one has a reasonably good detection rate at virustotal.com, of 75%.
All the major antivirus engines detect it, with the exception of Sunbelt (producer of CounterSpy).
That means anybody with up to date antivirus should be safe, provided it's working properly.
This trojan will turn your computer into a spam relay, and steal email addresses from various files on your computer. There is the possibility of other activities, as it does embed itself into Internet Explorer, meaning it could be used to steal usernames and passwords for sensitive sites like banks. It also downloads and executes programs from Internet servers, so it could easily upgrade its capabilities in future.