kpatz
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Re: Warning regarding fake malware patch 'patch_4723.zip '
Not just Yahoo accounts, I'm seeing them on my personal email too.
It's the latest variant of the Mixor/Nuwar/"Storm Worm" outbreak that's been hitting this week (name varies widely by AV vendor).
Whatever is sending them (worm or spambot) is pretty adept at punching through my greylister too. Fortunately I have multiple layers of virus scanning on my personal email as well. 
Up until now they've all been just straight .exe attachments, but this latest one has taken the Bagle approach of sending itself as a password-protected zip attachment. The upside is my email anti-virus setup strips encrypted zips, so no definition updates are needed.
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kpatz
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| Just got another one, in my Yahoo account this time.
Attached file is Patch_2119.zip. |
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1 edit | said by kpatz  :Just got another one, in my Yahoo account this time. Attached file is Patch_2119.zip. A massive spam outbreak that tries to trick recipients into opening a file attachment that can hijack their computers has already broken records, security companies said today. Researchers at Postini Inc. said the spam run is the largest in the last 12 months....
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