[jambutty]

I have long been in to the habit of not accepting any greetings card email – EVER! For as long as I can remember greetings cards have been the major vehicle for spreading viruses.

One of the most recent nasties is Trojan-Downloader.JavaScript.Agent.bpl and you pick it up at infected web sites. You can read more abut it here - http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/trojan-downloader_js_agent_d.shtml

For years rumours have gone around of how you can get a virus just by downloading an email. Most experts have dismissed that suggestion saying that it is not possible and it wasn’t UNTIL NOW!

I and many other people got an email allegedly coming from E-Gold with “Notification of e-gold account update” as the Subject.

The email reads:
“** e-gold Account Information Update Notice **

Dear e-gold account holder,

Due to concerns, for the safety and integrity of your account we have issued this warning message.

It has come to our attention that you are involved with High Yield Investment Program (HYIP) industry. Therefore, you will have to agree with new Account User Agreement modifications, if you want to continue using our service.

Once you have reviewed and agreed with these modifications your e-gold account service will not be interrupted and will continue as normal. Failure to accept a new agreement may lead to account suspension.

Please use a particular link below to login to your account.

https://www.e-gold.com/acct/login.html

then update your Birth Date Proceed to an agreement review page

Thank you in advance for your prompt response.
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Please do not reply to this automatically generated email message.”

It does not have a visible attachment, yet my ZoneAlarm Suite reacts to it to inform me that it has found a virus (Trojan-Spy.HTML.Fraud.gen) simply by me reading the email.

Before anyone asks it is definitely the email that is causing the virus alert. I have closed every window except Outlook Express and even disconnected from the Internet and when I click on the email to read it, within a few seconds ZA pops up with the alert and to inform me that the virus has been quarantined.

So BEWARE!

Whether you have an account with E-Gold or not remember that E-Gold does not send out that sort of email so it has to be fake.