New-Fangled Viruses

Holy Cow! I got a nasty little virus in my Yahoo mail account yesterday. Very scary because it nearly tricked me -- it is one of these new-fangled "spoof" emails and it looked like it came directly from Yahoo. I am posting this to help increase awareness of these virus techniques -- spoofing, phishing, etc. You basically can't "trust" anything anymore.

I have listed the text of the email below and a link to some more information FYI. It had two attachments. I imagine if I had opened them I would have been zapped.

Here is some more information re: this virus, if you're interested:

Symantec Security Response
Urban Legends Reference Pages

Bottom line: If you get an email that looks like the one below, DO NOT DO WHAT IT TELLS YOU TO DO!

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Dear user of Yahoogroups.com e-mail server gateway,

Our main mailing server will be temporary unavaible for next two days, to continue receiving mail in these days you have to configure our free auto-forwarding service.

For further details see the attach.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is

Best wishes,
The Yahoogroups.com team
http://www.yahoogroups.com

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