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Dear all,

Please be aware of a large increase in emails with the following content below. The Trojan horse arrives as an attachment to an email claiming to contain a video of one of several different recent news stories. The email itself will have no message body, but will have one of the following subject lines:

A killer at 11, he's free at 21 and kill again!
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel
British Muslims Genocide
Naked teens attack home director.
230 dead as storm batters Europe.
Re: Your text
Radical Muslim drinking enemies's blood.
Chinese missile shot down Russian satellite
Chinese missile shot down Russian aircraft
Chinese missile shot down USA aircraft
Chinese missile shot down USA satellite
Russian missile shot down USA aircraft
Russian missile shot down USA satellite
Russian missile shot down Chinese aircraft
Russian missile shot down Chinese satellite
Saddam Hussein safe and sound!
Saddam Hussein alive!
Venezuelan leader: "Let's the War beginning".
Fidel Castro dead.
RM also strongly urges users to be cautious of any unsolicited email that contains attachments that claim to be legitimate or interesting. The technique of using interesting subject lines or attachment names in emails in order to distribute malicious code is known as "social engineering". This technique has been used by threat writers for many years and, unfortunately, is often successful against unprotected users. The usage of recent news events as part of the email is especially common among these techniques.

The file attachment will be one of the following:

FullVideo.exe
Full Story.exe
Video.exe
Read More.exe
FullClip.exe
GreetingPostcard.exe
MoreHere.exe
FlashPostcard.exe
GreetingCard.exe
ClickHere.exe
ReadMore.exe
FlashPostcard.exe
FullNews.exe
Given the changing nature of this threat it is likely that additional subject lines or attachment names may appear. Users are encouraged to not open emails such as these.

The attachment is actually a trojan horse that will install itself on the computer as a system driver and then will download other malicious programs from various computers on the Internet. The attachment and the trojan horse it contains will be detected.

Once installed and running, this Trojan attempts to establish communication with other infected systems on the Internet. This network is used as the distribution source from which the other malicious programs are downloaded.

Please note that Orpington College is protected against current viruses and trojans and viruses, but with the continuing changing nature of viruses please be aware of suspicious emails, both at work and at home.







Regards



IT Support

PLEASE pass this on to everbody you know

Answer 1

thanx alot for taking your time to tell us, what a caring gent you are thanx again.

Answer 2

Tanx 4 d info

Answer 3

Thanks.
These days I'm so suspicious of all emails, I won't open anything if I don't know who the sender is, or if the subject isn't something I would expect to receive.

Answer 4

I wish I had read this before I opened greetingcard.exe, I cant believe i opened it, Eventually my anti-virus deleted it, thankfully, hopefully thats the end of it

Answer 5

Thanx for the info.

Tink x

Answer 6

Thanx chris x

Answer 7

I will copy and paste this information in a message to circulate it to all my mailing list. thanx

Answer 8

thank u very much. i got that in my bulk mail yesterday but i just deleted it as i delete all spam emails

Answer 9

Thanks for the heads up!

I never open anything that I don't know where it has come from, especially anything ending in .exe

Answer 10

Thank you I will pass this on