GEN: NEW VIRUS THREAT:Subject: Re[2]: our private photos [random string of letters]"

[Sybil Finemel <sfinemel@COMCAST.NET>]

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.c@mm.
html


"Due to an increased rate of submissions Symantec Security Response has
upgraded W32.Mimail.C@mm to a Category 3 threat from a Category 2
threat.
W32.Mimail.C@mm is a variant of W32.Mimail.A@mm
<http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.a@mm
.html>  that spreads by email and steals information from infected
computers.

The email has the following characteristics:

Subject: Re[2]: our private photos [random string of letters]"
Attachment: photos.zip


Sybil Finemel
Library Director MLIS.CIO.
Los Angeles CA
Contributor, lii.org, Librarians' Index to the Internet
 http://lii.org/
Virtual Reference Desk Volunteer
24/7 Reference Librarian.
sfinemel@comcast.net

'No entertainment is so cheap as reading;nor any pleasure so lasting'
-Lady Mary Wortley Montagu

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