Hi,
2 new samples came in by e-mail today (undetected by avast). A friend of mine received another one, different than mine.
DO NOT CLICK ON E-MAIL ATTACHMENTS if you are not 100% what they are!
Here are the e-mails I received:
Subject:
Mail Delivery System
Body:
Mail transaction failed. Partial message is available.
Attachment:
readme.msg.exe
Subject:
Mail server report.
Body:
Mail server report.
Our firewall determined the e-mails containing worm copies are being sent from your computer.
Nowadays it happens from many computers, because this is a new virus type (Network Worms).
Using the new bug in the Windows, these viruses infect the computer unnoticeably.
After the penetrating into the computer the virus harvests all the e-mail addresses and sends the copies of itself to these e-mail
addresses
Please install updates for worm elimination and your computer restoring.
I keep getting email like this and have no idea who this joe ? is. I also received an email from avast in regards to this email. Does anone else get email from avast?
I keep deleting this email and keep getting it too.
What is it?
A new variant of the Stration or Warezov family “Stration DS” has been spotted in great numbers, actually an all high toppling Netsky P from number one ever to second place. Stration first spotted in Thailand, now has been seen in 91 countries in the world, and the first variant had over a 100.000 spottings.
These numbers are achieved because the new varieties are being spawn from already infected machines, adding to the effect this cybergang is after.
See statistics here: http://www.fortinet.com/FortiGuardCenter/advisory/FG-2006-29.html
It shows worm-spreading is becoming more and more aggresive.
Also our member NickGolovko reported on the Warezov family, that is why these addenda.