[Chat] Dangerous Trojan Horse

[Stephen J Gewirtz]

  A short time ago, I received an email that informed me that something 
I had supposedly snail mailed could not be delivered because of an 
inadequate address.  The email was addressed to several people (strange 
if only one of them had mailed something).

Attached to that email was a program called *uspslabel.zip*.

Fortunately, my virus scanner (Norton) caught it, which is why I know 
about it.  Inside that program was a very dangerous information stealer, 
possibly attached to what normally would be an innocuous and perhaps 
useful program.  I presume that it would have enabled someone to get 
information on the financial accounts that I log into.

The moral: *Do not open uspslabel.zip if you receive an email to which 
it is attached. *It is a very dangerous Trojan horse.  Delete it.

In fact, any time you receive an email that makes no sense, do not open 
attachments.  Just delete the email with the attachments.

Steve.
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