GrayScales - Scams, Viruses & More

This one's a nasty one! I've received it three times today. Once as with Subject, RE:Application (as if it were from a job applicant), second RE:Movie and then finally, this last one looked like a bounced email from AOL's mailer daemon. The attachment was a zip file name your_details.zip but was in an attached .eml (email) file. Forged headers and everything. Between this virus and the W32/Bugbear virus it's obvious to me that the virus creators are trying to be more deceptive in their strategies. You can't tell what the subject or body of an email that contains a virus might be. The rule to follow is simple: if an email contains an attachment... don't open it. If you think it's legit, then send an email to the sender asking them to confirm what they are sending you.

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