Virus alert from Trend

Fellow Trend users:

I've already gotten this one twice today. There's an updated virus def (597)
available.

Here's part of the note from Trend:

TrendLabs HQ received numerous infection reports of a new malware
spreading in the US which currently has an infection count of 11.
This malware is detected as WORM_MIMAIL.A. As of 09:26 AM (US PT),
Trend has declared a Yellow Alert to control the spread of this malware.

This malware is an Internet worm that propagates via email using its own
Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine.

It arrives with the following details:
Subject: your account %n%
(Where %n% is a variable string.)
Message Body:
Hello there,I would like to inform you about
important information regarding youremail address.
This email address will be expiring.
Please read attachment for details.

Best regards,
Administrator
Attachment: "message.zip"

Kevin
Sat Aug 02 07:11:01 CDT 2003

I received 3 of these emails within 30 minutes of each other. Trend
identified and caught them immediately.
-kw

"Frank Clark" <Frank@NOSPAMdesigns-by-designNOSPAM.net> wrote in message
news:%23iu9OYMWDHA.572@TK2MSFTNGP11.phx.gbl...
> Hmmm..... Glad I didn't open them yet....
>
> Seemed a little suspicious - Since I just renewed my domain
> name and I am administrator@<my domain name>.
>
> Wonder how many people will be duped on this one.....
>
> Also has anyone opened the zip to see what is in it? Does it
> anything self run? or do you need to run the program inside the zip?
>
>
> Frank Clark
>
>
> On 1-Aug-2003, "Gary Karasik" <gkarasik@fea.net>, Progressive Computing
> spat forth
> 29 lines on "Virus alert from Trend":
>
> > Fellow Trend users:
> >
> > I've already gotten this one twice today. There's an updated virus def
> > (597)
> > available.
> >
> > Here's part of the note from Trend:
> >
> > TrendLabs HQ received numerous infection reports of a new malware
> > spreading in the US which currently has an infection count of 11.
> > This malware is detected as WORM_MIMAIL.A. As of 09:26 AM (US PT),
> > Trend has declared a Yellow Alert to control the spread of this malware.
> >
> > This malware is an Internet worm that propagates via email using its own
> > Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) engine.
> >
> > It arrives with the following details:
> > Subject: your account %n%
> > (Where %n% is a variable string.)
> > Message Body:
> > Hello there,I would like to inform you about
> > important information regarding youremail address.
> > This email address will be expiring.
> > Please read attachment for details.
> >
> > Best regards,
> > Administrator
> > Attachment: "message.zip"