[Iinet-newsletter] Virus Alert From Infinity Internet

support at infinityinternet.com support at inside.pacifier.net
Fri Aug 1 17:20:41 PDT 2003


You may have received an e-mail with the subject of "your account" and addressed to you from "admin" at one of our domains.  

	Example: admin at iinet.com

Please be advised that Infinity Internet does not send any e-mails using "admin" as the sender.  Due to this virus, we have blocked the username admin for all domains.  This includes our own domains ( iinet.com, pacifier.com, etc. ) as well as all other domains.

	Example: admin at iinet.com ( Blocked )
	Example: admin at YOURDOMAIN ( Blocked )

The text of this message presents itself as a notice that your e-mail address is expiring.  This is false.  The intent of the message is to get you to open the attached ZIP containing a what looks like an HTML (web browser) file.  This file uses sophisticated methods to get your system to execute an embedded program within the file.

Presumably, once this file is opened, the system becomes infected and begins transmitting new copies of the virus.

These messages are not coming from Infinity Internet and we are committed to continuing your existing e-mail addresses.  Your e-mail address will not expire or change.

If you have opened this file, please have your system checked and cleaned immediately.  Some good sites to check for more information are:

	http://www.trendmicro.com/vinfo/virusencyclo/default5.asp?VName=WORM_MIMAIL.A

	http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.mimail.a@mm.html

	http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100523


To protect your account from SPAM and viruses you can set your account up with spam filtering from the User Console at https://console.iinet.com.

Thank You,
Infinity Internet


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