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Spoof PayPal email attachment not detected as a virus.

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stduc

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Nov 26, 2002
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I got an email - apparently from PayPal. I suspected it was a spoof and on checking the extended headers I discovered it originated from China.

There was an attached zip file. So I scanned it with McAfee and EWIDO - both reported nothing found. So I sent the file to EWIDO for them to analyse and possible add to their database.

Figuring it has to be malware of some kind. - I mean what else would it be? So I thought - I wonder if any anti malware/ anti virus software would detect it.

If you want to see if you can identify the content in the attachment I got as malware & identify what it is, you can download it from rapidshare here (It's only a 6KB zip containing an exe file) - But don't execute it!
 
EWIDO now flag it as Downloader.Agent.aum

Worryingly McAfee still don't flag it!

I have to say I have been going off McAfee for some time. This is another nail in their coffin (so to speak)
 
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