Okay - I just got an email with a NEW subject, from a new sender BUT with the same message in the body of the email & from the same ISP as the first.
Here's the subject line:1020deposit retrunCROSSCONTRY & it has a .doc extension. DON'T downlaod this 1 either! You know, this is getting REAL annoying!

 

I guess this is why I use Hotmail. They screen my junkmail, and all attachements are scanned with McAfee. I love 'em.

 

That worm sends itself to everyone in the affected's address book, and it attaches itself to a random .exe file in the infected computer. It also randomly changes the subject line to something like, "I wanted you to check this file for me" or something like that. The first one I got was the original... it had the spanish version of the "Hi, how are you?" for the subject... two of the last three I got were random subjects, one was the "check this out."

If you read the details on the Norton Antivirus Research Center site, it has the potential to do some really nasty stuff given the right conditions.

Also, according to Norton, they cannot fix the infected file, just quarantine it, and erase the changes to the OS it may have made. However, THE FILE REMAINS INFECTED!!!! A woman my mom works with didn't realize it, and opened it anyway, even after it flagged it as being virus-ridden. Some people.....

[Mr. T Voice] "AH pity the foo that started this virus!"

-Joe-