Trend reported this yesterday.

Joe


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[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] On Behalf Of R. Scott Perry
Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 9:21 AM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [IMail Forum] New virus: W32/Fretham-Fam

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
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