Virus Alert -- March 3, 2004

[Jason]

Just an fyi to everyone...

There are some new viruses in circulation that are pretty tricky. 

It appears that some are very well worded and include a zip file that is password protected.  The emails tend to state they are from your mail service or some other hosting support and they might tell you something regarding how you need to run the program to forward your mail, or something to that effect.

In the event that you EVER get any emails claiming to come from Charlottezweb that have a "password" protected zip attachment, do NOT open them. 

If you ever have any questions on an email that appears to come from Charlottezweb, please feel free to email support@charlottezweb.com to have us verify any files in question.

An example email (with domain names edited-out)  is pasted below:

From: support@`edit>.com [mailto:support@`edit>.com]
Sent: Wednesday, March 03, 2004 12:18 AM
To: `edit>@`edit>.com
Subject: Notify about using the e-mail account.

Dear user of "`edit>.com" mailing system,

Our antivirus software has detected a large ammount of viruses outgoing
from your email account, you may use our free anti-virus tool to clean up
your computer software.

Further details can be obtained from attached file.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is
"30173".

Have a good day,
The `edit>.com team
http://www.`edit>.com

For more information, you can follow this thread:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=&threadid=243628

Regards,
Jason