“Here You Have” Virus Email

Brandon

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There’s a new virus email that appears in your inbox with the subject field saying “Here you have”. It seems it has appeared in the email accounts of multiple people since it became a highly searched item on the Web!

Well, as you may have guessed, this is nothing but an email virus, so the best course of action is to avoid opening it and just delete it. Do the same with future emails with the same subject line. It has been known that the body of the message reads:

“Hello: This is The Document I told you about, you can find it Here. hxxp://www.sharedocuments.com/.”

If you opened the message, chances are you are already infected, so it would be a good idea to use up-to-date antivirus software to deal with the infection. You could also try some free malware removal programs that might help you trace worms, Trojans, or other kind of computer viruses.
 
What type of infection is this? What exactly does it do? I just searched and dont see anything about the specifics..
 
well
you get sent this email and a link to what looks like a .PDF file
it's actually a .pdf.scr file, in otherwords a screensaver app
it then sends the link out to everyone on your contact list and deletes a bunch of files.

more info here: http://www.microsoft.com/security/portal/Threat/Encyclopedia/Entry.aspx?Name=Worm:Win32/Visal.A

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a fix: http://directorblue.blogspot.com/2010/09/here-you-have-delightful-new-virus.html

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ABC News : http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/virus-mail-spreads-online/story?id=11596433&page=1
 
Thank you for warning us about this Brandon! I will definitely be on the lookout for this in my inbox, and it will be trashed if I see anything like this.
Thanks again!
 
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