Re: Warning

From: cquirke (MVP Windows shell/user) (cquirkenews_at_nospam.mvps.org)
Date: 05/28/05

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    Date: Sat, 28 May 2005 16:06:00 +0200

    On Fri, 27 May 2005 18:01:13 +0800, "Emyeu" <cmchong20@yahoo.com>

    >Recently, lots of user in my company received email with Subject:
    >"*WARNING* Your Email Account Will Be Closed.
    >
    >In the message body, it shows,
    >"We regret to inform you that your account has been suspended due to the
    >violation of our site policy, more info is attached."
    >
    >There is also a "zip" file attached together with the email.
    >
    >Can someone advice me?

    Almost certainly malware; this has been a common SE (Social
    Engineering) technique for a while now, and encrypted .ZIP have been
    used to sneak malware past av for a while as well. So I would not be
    surprised to hear something like "the attached file has been password
    protected for your security; the password is..."

    Initiate a seperate email your email service provider if you like -
    just don't reply to this message in order to do that.

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