I've been seeing some emails lately talking about DarkProfits.com. They claim to have charged my credit card some $200+. Didn't happen, but these emails may have been related to this particular Worm. The Mimail.C virus/worm apparently was programmed to conduct a Denial of Service attack on darkprofits.com and darkprofits.net domains this past Friday.
According to Info World's security update the worm "arrives as an e-mail with "our private photos" in the subject line and an attached ZIP archive file called "photos.zip." The sender's address is faked to be "james" at the receiver's domain and the body of the message promises revealing photos of a girl at a beach, the antivirus vendors said. When you open this Zip file it contains a file named "Infection starts when the recipient unpacks the "PHOTOS.JPG.EXE" file from the attachment and runs it." First of all, this virus is playing upon purient interests. Secondly, JPG files have icons that look very different that EXE files. If the victims of this bug don't know how to look at icons or at filenames and figure out how they they're not what they say they are AND they're not running an updated anti-virus program, then they probably deserve to get it. But just in case you do know of someone who had a brief lapse of intelligence send them to this link at McAfee's site to find the cure MiMail.C Worm