E-mails with the misspelled attachment "Happy Hollydays" arrived in inboxes Tuesday with a nasty worm hidden inside.
“It propagates itself via e-mail contact lists when the attached file is opened and could render infected computers more vulnerable to spammers or hackers.
The worm spread overnight across 18 European countries, including Great Britain, France, Germany and Italy, but was not expected to make waves in the United States. The Europe-U.S. time difference gave antivirus companies stateside some breathing room.”
Read more at CNN
“W32/Zafi.D-mm is a mass mailing virus designed to use its own SMTP engine to propagate and it harvests e-mail addresses from compromised machines in addition to trying to reproduce itself through peer-to-peer (P2P) applications. The signature of the virus is that it arrives in an e-mail where the “from:” field is spoofed, the body of the e-mail may be in English or other languages, and the message appears to be a Christmas greeting. Among the copies of the e-mails that MessageLabs has intercepted, there are numerous names for infected attachments, including giftcard.id6325.com, and xmascard.php8238.cmd. Intercepted subject lines include “Feliz Navidad!” and “Merry Christmas!”
Read more at ExtremeTech
So how do you stop it? As of yet there is no quick fix, but make sure to update your virus scanner often.
