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W32/Mimail.t@MM

Feb 12, 2004 11:45PM PST

McAfee users are proactively protected against the W32/Mimail.t@MM executable when using the 4313 DAT files and scanning compressed executables (default scan option). The detection name is W32/Mimail.gen@MM.

This mass-mailing email worm was spammed to many email recipients during the initial seeding.

The worm constructs email messages using its own SMTP engine.

The spammed message is as follows:

From: "Nancy"
Subject: Re:Gollum

Hi Gollum its Nancy.,

More: http://us.mcafee.com/virusInfo/default.asp?id=description&virus_k=100996

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