Re: Possible virus--beware of "Navidad" as an attachment

Title: Re: Possible virus--beware of "Navidad" as an attachme

> I could be wrong about
> this, but I got an email from WSN with "Navidad.exe" as an
> attachment. I would not download an exe file from an internet email
> list. In general, I wouldn't download one from anywhere unless I was
> sure. The "Navidad.exe" might be a virus; I read something
> about that over the past two days. If it is something from the
> Economist, then just go to the Economist Web page if you want to read
> it........but BEWARE of downloading an exe virus

No, you are  correct Alan. navidad.exe is an Outlook worm that was discovered on November 3. After executing that attachment, there is a HIGH possibility your system will become unstable. The Symantec Antivirus Research Centre classifies the threat from this worm as HIGH.

See http://www.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.navidad.html for more info.

Perhaps it is time for the list moderator to disable attachments as there are many doing the rounds at the moment and it is only a matter of time before history repeats itself (funny how the cyber world so often mimics the real world).

One wonders why this e-mail was posted to the list with only an attachment and no body text other than that a short message enticing users to open said attachment...

Paul.

                        

                         

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