Fyi,


Please read email below I sent to Symantec.  Not sure if this is new
news, but they also shut down their "support@" email address so it may
not be...



Regards,

Danny



Title: New email going around spoofing [EMAIL PROTECTED]



Message Body:



The email I got spoofed your support address and claimed to be the
support group responding to a virus submission.  It goes further to say
that the system is infected and that I should run the attached (a zip
file that contains the Netsky.p.dam virus, or a variant).



Thought you might like to know...



Details are below.



Regards,



Danny H. Cox

Manager, Information Technology Operations

Yield Dynamics, Inc.

(408) 773-7822



Here is what realtime said about the attachment (I always try to archive
the attachments to see if they are infected or have Trojans...) -



Scan type:  Auto-Protect Scan

Event:  Threat Found!

Threat: W32.Netsky.P.dam

Action taken:  Clean failed : Delete failed : Access denied

Date found: Thursday, July 29, 2004  1:26:37 PM



The body of the message -

This message was written in a character set other than your own. If it
is not displayed correctly, click here (link deleted) to open it in a
new window.

The sample file you sent contains a new virus version of mydoom.j.
Please clean your system with the attached signature.

Sincerly,
 Robert Ferrew

++++ Attachment: No Virus found
++++ F-Secure AntiVirus - www.f-secure.com

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