MessageLabs has warned of a new virus that has appeared yesterday, of which it has already detected several thousand copies in the wild. Scold-MM was first intercepted yesterday and appeared to originate from France. However, MessageLabs says it has since detected more than 2,000 copies as far afield as Egypt and Australia. Scold-MM arrives as an email with the subject line: ‘When It?s Cold Outside She Gives Me Warm Inside’ and includes random text in the message. It also includes an .scr attachment with a random file name. On an infected machine it will harvest email addresses found locally and send itself on to them. Full Story
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