just got this off my mate ... > Hi
>
> There is a virus spreading across the internet today, and although our
> systems will deal with it I thought it prudent to publicise the
> information I have.
>
> As always, be wary of email from people you don't know especially if
> it contains attachments.
>
> The details of the new Doom worm are as follows :
>
> Description W32/MyDoom-A is a worm which travels by email. The worm
> harvests email addresses from your hard disk and uses randomly-chosen
> addresses for both the "to" and "from" fields. This means that the
> "from" address is spoofed and does not tell you where the mail really
> came from.
> W32/MyDoom-A arrives in emails with the following characteristics:
> Subject lines include:
> error
> hello
> hi
> mail delivery system
> mail transaction failed
> server report
> status
> test
> [random collection of characters]
> Attachment names include:
> body
> data
> doc
> document
> file
> message
> readme
> test
> [random collection of characters]
> Attachment extensions:
> bat
> cmd
> exe
> pif
> scr
> zip
> W32/MyDoom-A attaches itself to emails in either EXE (Windows program)
> or ZIP (Zip archive) format.
>
> Regards
>
>
> There is a virus spreading across the internet today, and although our
> systems will deal with it I thought it prudent to publicise the
> information I have.
>
> As always, be wary of email from people you don't know especially if
> it contains attachments.
>
> The details of the new Doom worm are as follows :
>
> Description W32/MyDoom-A is a worm which travels by email. The worm
> harvests email addresses from your hard disk and uses randomly-chosen
> addresses for both the "to" and "from" fields. This means that the
> "from" address is spoofed and does not tell you where the mail really
> came from.
> W32/MyDoom-A arrives in emails with the following characteristics:
> Subject lines include:
> error
> hello
> hi
> mail delivery system
> mail transaction failed
> server report
> status
> test
> [random collection of characters]
> Attachment names include:
> body
> data
> doc
> document
> file
> message
> readme
> test
> [random collection of characters]
> Attachment extensions:
> bat
> cmd
> exe
> pif
> scr
> zip
> W32/MyDoom-A attaches itself to emails in either EXE (Windows program)
> or ZIP (Zip archive) format.
>
> Regards
>
