New Windows virus doing the rounds?

[Applespider]

I rarely get junk mail to my home account - careful handing out to selected parties and pretty much unguessable - even after having it for 6 years or so.

But I started getting a couple of odd attachments through a couple of days ago and tonight it's turned into 2 or 3 an hour. Mail is picking it up and trashing it but still. Anyone know if anything doing the rounds that I might have to tell my PC-using friends to watch out for in case it's harvesting their Outlook to mail me?

 

[eva01]

I am getting those emails too.

Say they are from the CIA, earthlink, a Bank, MSN.

And they are getting really annoying. Getting lots of them and Mail trashes them for me.

 

[dubbz]

Got one from Cox.net.. in german.. that slipped past the filter. Nice little zip with an .exe included.

Nothing else, at least not that survived the filter.

 

[Applespider]

Having had a hunt through Symantec, it appears there's new Sober and Mytob variants out; I guess I have a friend who hasn't updated their virus protection... what a surprise!

 

[kainjow]

I've gotten a few of these today also. A few from the CIA and FBI. Scared me for a second at first

 

[Chundles]

Anyone want to open the .exe in Textedit and put a little smiley face and a picture of Steve with the caption "Buy something from this man and don't get viruses like this anymore"?

 

[kainjow]

Anyone want to open the .exe in Textedit and put a little smiley face and a picture of Steve with the caption "Buy something from this man and don't get viruses like this anymore"?

If we knew the file format of exe, we could edit a string value inside there with a hex editor, which would be traceable if the virus duplicates itself exactly