Below just received from McAfee and should explain the increase in viral
activity.
Wise folk will always have their virus scanner active and download updates
at least once a week.
Eddie, W6/G0AZT
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** VIRUS ALERT - W32/Badtrans@MM **
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McAfee.com has received an increasing number of reports from
home users with a new variant of Badtrans, referred to as
Badtrans.b. AVERT has raised the Risk Assessment on this
variant of W32/Badtrans@MM to HIGH RISK FOR CONSUMERS.
VirusScan and other McAfee products with DAT files 4172 and
higher are protected from this variant.
W32/Badtrans@MM is a mass-mailing worm that drops a
remote-access Trojan. The virus arrives via the Microsoft
Outlook email program and attempts to send itself by replying
to unread email messages.
The email may contain the text "Take a look to the attachment"
in the message body and will contain an attachment that is
13,312 bytes in size. The attachment name is created in
three sections, for example, card.doc.pif.
For detection and removal instructions for the
W32/Badtrans@MM virus, click here.
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