*Fake F-Secure e-mail contains malware*

be advised!

FEBRUARY 02, 2006 (COMPUTERWORLD) - A Trojan horse has been sent to
e-mail addresses disguised as a message from antivirus software vendor
F-Secure Corp. in Helsinki, Finland, the company said in a statement.

F-Secure said that an unknown attacker sent out thousands of infected
e-mails crafted so that they appear to be from a nonexistent F-Secure
employee, “David Adams, Dept. Research, F-Secure Development.”

The addresses used in the attack include press@f-secure.com,
info@f-secure.com and editor@f-secure.com, F-Secure said. The e-mails
were not sent from the company’s network but were spoofed to look like
they were coming from an F-Secure address, the company said.

The e-mails contain a new variant of the Breplibot worm, which F-Secure
Anti-Virus detects as W32/Breplibot.ae.

F-Secure said it has taken measures to inform network users about the
attack.

According to F-Secure, the e-mails look like this:

From: Mr D Adams < david.adams @ f-secure.com >

Subject: Website Browsing Problem

Hello,

I noticed whilst browsing your site that there were problems with some
of your links, ....

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