Did you read this post just because of the subject? Virus authors are playing the same trick to get you to open spam and trojan emails with subject lines that warn of attacks and conflicts in the middle east.

Subjects include “USA Just Have Started World War III” / “Missle Strike: The USA kills more then 20000 Iranian citizens” / “Israel Just Have Started World War III” / “USA Missile Strike: Iran War just have started”. From the sample emails that we have seen to date, the actual email body is blank, and the attached files have various names such as “video.exe”, “movie.exe”, “click here.exe”, “clickme.exe”, “readme.exe” and “read more.exe”.

The attachments are infected with the Trojan.Peacomm or W32.Mixor viruses. Trojan.Peacomm is quite dangerous as it employs rootkit technology.

Once again it’s important to remember not to open emails from people you don’t know and especially do not open email attachments unless you are expecting them and have checked them with several updated anti-virus scanners.

[Middle East War, or just more junk email?]

[tags]Trojan.Peacomm, W32.Mixor, trojan, virus, email, worm, e-mail, spam, rootkit[/tags]