The CERT Coordination Center publishes incident notes to provide information about incidents to the Internet community. <h2>W32/Mimail Virus</h2> Release Date: August 2, 2003<p> <h3>Overview</h3> On Friday, August 1st 2003 the CERT Coordination Center began to receive an increased number of reports of a new mass mailing virus, now referred to as W32/Mimail, spreading on the Internet. <h3>Description</h3> <p>The W32/Mimail virus is a malicious file attachment containing a specially crafted MHTML file named 'message.html'. This file is delivered inside of a .ZIP archive file named 'message.zip'. Viewing the 'message.html' file on a vulnerable system will cause the malicious code to be installed and executed. The malicious code is a mass-mailer. <p>The email message may look like the following: </p></p></p> |