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Month-old W32.Ackantta.F@mm still circulating as email attachment

“What are you doing?
“To join or to see who invited you, check the attachment.”

Twitter_invite_1

Hmmm. That looked interesting. After I clicked on it (in virtual environment), Yahoo renamed the attachment from “Invitation+Card.zip” to “Neutral.gif” and gave a warning:

Yahoo detection

Nice work Yahoo.

VIPRE detects it as W32.Ackantta.F@mm — a generic worm detection.

Tom Kelchner