Another cunning virus ploy

[ffutures]

Received this tonight (read in mailwasher, needless to say with great care)

Dear user of Ntlworld.com,

Some of our clients complained about the spam (negative e-mail content) outgoing from your e-mail account. Probably, you have been infected by a proxy-relay trojan server. In order to keep your computer safe, follow the instructions.

For further details see the attach.

Best wishes,
The Ntlworld.com team http://www.ntlworld.com

Needless to say "the attach" is a .pif file called morinfo, presumably a virus payload of some sort. That or Ntlworld technical support are TRULY stupid, because there is no way I'm opening an attachment of that sort.

Here's the full header, for anyone who's interested or wants to take a crack at tracing the source. I've replaced the usual HTML brackets with curly brackets in what follows and deleted my address:

Return-Path: {czVrldGLqVJAFwia@00.d0.59.f5.d0.2a}
Received: from dispatch ([67.164.248.44]) by mta03-svc.ntlworld.com
(InterMail vM.4.01.03.37 201-229-121-137-20020806) with SMTP
id {20040304155443.YOMD22458.mta03-svc.ntlworld.com@dispatch}
for {xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx@ntlworld.com};
Thu, 4 Mar 2004 15:54:43 +0000
Date: Thu, 04 Mar 2004 08:56:56 -0700
To: xxxxxxx@ntlworld.com
Subject: Warning about your e-mail account.
From: support@ntlworld.com
Message-ID: {etchsvwvojumewsoxpq@ntlworld.com}
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="--------tjbeqniifnaoportlvak"

----------tjbeqniifnaoportlvak
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Comments

[karohemd.livejournal.com]

I received two mails from "ntlworld" accounts today, one from "noreply" and one from "management" both having a similar content of warning me of my "improper use" of my mail account and that it would be cancelled. More info would be in the attachment (.zip).

I use Mozilla Thunderbird so I'm pretty safe against attachments as long as I don't consciously double-click and run them but that would be stupid. ;o)

Still annoying, though. And this one is even more cunning as it builds on the fact that many current viruses mask the sender address.