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mimail@mm virus
aka W32/Mimail@mm [McAfee], WORM_MIMAIL.E [Trend]

Virus Alert November 2, 2003

If you receive a message with Subject: don’t be late, please erase it without opening it. It contains the mimail@mm virus.

The email has the following characteristics:

From: john@<current domain> (The from address may be spoofed to appear that it is coming from the current domain)

Subject: don't be late! [random sequence of letters]

Message:

Hello Dear!,

Will meet tonight as we agreed, because on Wednesday I don't think I'll make it,
so don't be late. And yes, by the way here is the file you asked for.
It's all written there. See you.

[random sequence of letters]

Attachment: readnow.zip

Systems Affected: Windows 2000, Windows 95, Windows 98, Windows Me, Windows NT, Windows XP
Systems Not Affected: DOS, Linux, Macintosh, OS/2, UNIX

More information at http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/pf/w32.mimail.d@mm.html .

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