A Virus Against A Virus Spam
January 25, 2011

From: gina@gmail.com
The Email Reputation Services (ERS) team has found interesting spam samples attached with an executable file. The mail message may appear friendly and from a personal contact. What is noteworthy in this spam run is that the mail attachment is disguised as a 'virus killer' and is supposed to counter the virus W32.HEULAR. This executable file is currently detected as WORM_VB.GAW.
The Email Reputation Services (ERS) team has found interesting spam samples attached with an executable file. The mail message may appear friendly and from a personal contact. What is noteworthy in this spam run is that the mail attachment is disguised as a 'virus killer' and is supposed to counter the virus W32.HEULAR. This executable file is currently detected as WORM_VB.GAW.
SPAM BLOCKING DATE / TIME: January 25, 2011 GMT-8
TMASE INFO
- ENGINE:6.5
- PATTERN:7916