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[DennisD]

Found this from an earlier link provided by Andavari re. Dr. Webs Antivirus plug-in for Firefox.

The main article, dated Jan 21st, can be found here:

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The messages with Trojan.Spambot in attachments may have the following subjects:

* Russian missle shot down Chinese satellite
* Russian missle shot down USA satellite
* The Supreme Court has been attacked by terrorists. Sen. Mark Dayton dead!
* Fidel Castro dead!

The names of executable files are the following:

* Full video.exe
* Full clip.exe
* Full news.exe
* Full story.exe
* Video.exe

Experts of Doctor Web, Ltd. warn users to never open any attachments received from unknown users. We predict increase of similar spam distributions of this Trojan. The subjects and the executables attached to the messages may differ.

Regards

[Spysnake]

Opening .exe files in email even from your best friend isn't recommended. Why this so simple fact is often completely ignored? Really, something like Full Video.exe should ring bells at some point.

[XanaTos112]

lol yeah,some common sense and you shouldnt fall for things like this

[Andavari]

In this day and age it's pretty much common knowledge for people not to run executable files from emails, however I suppose some people can't resist out of pure curiosity and thus get infected, and possibly end up reinstalling Windows.

[rridgely]

You have to think though that a lot of people(average users) don't know the difference between .exe and .avi. Plus it doesn't help that windows hides file extensions by default either so unless you know the differences from the icons(which usually can distinguish the file types, but not always) you may not even know what the file type is).

[AndyManchesta]

Trend Micro has an excellent write on this Trojan here:

http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/secadvisor...+Focused+Attack