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The ABF Shared Service Centre have been tracking a new, malicious computer virus that spreads using an e-mail attack. The Virus is beginning to become more widespread.
The virus arrives via e-mail and has a subject line of “Here You Have” and asks the recipient to click on a link embedded in the e-mail. This link points to a malicious program file disguised as a PDF (Adobe Acrobat) file.
When the user clicks on this link, their computer instantly downloads and launches the Virus. This process also installs the virus onto the victim’s computer without the user knowing!
Once running on the computer, the Virus attempts to e-mail a copy of the original e-mail to all e-mail addresses found in the infected user’s e-mail address book.
The Virus also attempts to spread from computer to computer over the local network (to other machines on your home or office network) by copying itself to open drive shares found on other machines on the network.
Once the Virus copies itself to another machine, if a user opens the folder that contains the Virus on this new machine, this will launch and cause it to spread further through both e-mail and over shared drives.
To mitigate the risk to the ABF Infrastructure, we have confirmed that both our Perimeter Email Protection system and our Symantec Anti Virus Solution, running the latest updates, will detect and eradicate the Virus.
If you receive an email with the subject line “Here You Have”, it should be deleted immediately.
