A new email virus (technically a trojan) is currently making the rounds. This one is an attachment to a message with the following text:
Dear Customer!
Thank you for ordering at our online store.
Your order: Sony VAIO A1133651A, was sent at your address.
The tracking number of your postal parcel is indicated in the document attached to
this letter.
Please, print out the postal label for receiving the parcel.
Internet Store.
The attached file is a zip file, named nz.zip, and is small, at only 9.8 kilobytes for one variant.
At least some variants of this virus are, as of this writing, not detected by Norton, Trend Micro, or McAfee. (Click the thumbnail to see the full size results in a new window.)
The trojan downloads several other malicious programs onto your computer, and also disables the Windows firewall, and the Windows Security Center, rendering your computer vulnerable to other intrusions.
It also uses techniques to insert itself into Internet Explorer, Firefox, and Opera browsers, thereby poisoning them with malicious code, probably intercepting passwords to websites and other activities.