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"nicehello" e-mail worm warning!
This worm has been raised to a Medium Risk Assessment for home users due to an increase in prevalence among home users only. Users with Hotmail addresses in MSN Messenger are especially vulnerable to this worm. This mass-mailing worm e-mails itself to all addresses found on the MSN Messenger contact list. It also sends the MSN Messenger username and password to the virus author in an e-mail message.
The following url will show you what the e-mail consist of if you were to by chance open the e-mail, and at the bottom of the page it will also tell you how to remove it from your computer.
http://msn.mcafee.com/root/genericV...fo/VIL/dispVirus.asp&virus_k=100131&affid=102
This worm has been raised to a Medium Risk Assessment for home users due to an increase in prevalence among home users only. Users with Hotmail addresses in MSN Messenger are especially vulnerable to this worm. This mass-mailing worm e-mails itself to all addresses found on the MSN Messenger contact list. It also sends the MSN Messenger username and password to the virus author in an e-mail message.
The following url will show you what the e-mail consist of if you were to by chance open the e-mail, and at the bottom of the page it will also tell you how to remove it from your computer.
http://msn.mcafee.com/root/genericV...fo/VIL/dispVirus.asp&virus_k=100131&affid=102
