Dear user,

Your e-mail account has been used to send a huge amount of junk email during the recent week. Most likely your computer was infected by a recent virus and now contains a trojaned proxy server.

We recommend that you follow our instruction in order to keep your computer safe.

..and then they oh-so-kindly sent me a nice friendly virus via my Boss.

A new virus (W32.Mydoom.M@mm mass-mailing worm) is currently spreading through the lots of network.s Please find below information how to take precautious actions to avoid virus infection on your machine.

Characteristics:

From: The "from" field can vary, e.g.:

amrxm1101.GSEAVADMIN@yourdomain.com

Postmaster

Mail Delivery Subsystem [noreply@yourdomain.com]

System Administrator

Subject: The subject varies, e.g.:

say helo to my litl friend
click me baby, one more time

hello

error

status

test

report

delivery failed

Message could not be delivered

Mail System Error - Returned Mail

Delivery reports about your e-mail

Returned mail: see transcript for details

Returned mail: Data format error

Attachment: Random file name and extension, e.g.:

attachment vorname.nachname@yourdomain.com.zip or any other attachment with the extension .zip

Action required: Ensure your virus definitions are up-to-date.

Exercise caution with unexpected e-mail attachments.

Information on the virus from the Symantec website:
http://www.symantec.com/region/de/techsupp/avcenter/venc/data/de-w32.mydoom.m@mm.html