Monday, August 4, 2003

Don’t open MiMail

TechNewsWorld reports that an email worm <A HREF="http://www.technewsworld.com/perl/story/31256.html">posing as a system administrator message</A> was rapidly spreading over the Internet as workers returned to the office. The MiMail worm indicates to receivers that their email account will soon expire and tricks users into opening an attachment that contains malicious software. The MiMail message requests users to read an attachment to find out about the expiration of their email account. The attachment contains an HTML file, which users typically assume is safe.

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