FYI, there is a new virus out, that Sophos has alerted us to, called W32/Fretham-Fam (no other AV companies that was get alerts from, including McAfee, have sent out alerts yet). This may be become widespread because of the social engineering aspect of it -- it pretends to have a Special Password attached, which it does (in a text attachment) -- but it supposedly needs to be decrypted with the attached .exe file. The .exe file may run automatically in Outlook when the E-mail is viewed (we do not know yet which OE vulnerability it uses). There are several variants of it already.
More details can be found at http://www.sophos.com/virusinfo/analyses/w32frethemfam.html . The attached files are decrypt-password.exe and password.txt, and it has a subject of "Re: Your password!". -Scott --- Declude: Anti-virus, Anti-spam and Anti-hijacking solutions for IMail. http://www.declude.com --- [This E-mail was scanned for viruses by Declude Virus (http://www.declude.com)] Please visit http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html to be removed from this list. An Archive of this list is available at: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Please visit the Knowledge Base for answers to frequently asked questions: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
