'Don't press this button' virus spreads despite its own advice

A virus called Navidad hit at least 75 US Fortune 500 companies last Friday according to anti-virus software vendor Network Associates (NAI).

NEWS The virus had spread in a similar manner to the notorious Love Bug by arriving in an email and replicating and forwarding itself through the user's address book. The email arrives with an attachment entitled Navidad.exe and once opened, has a message written in Spanish which, translated, says "Don't press this button". NAI declined to identify any of the companies affected though many are based in South America from where NAI suspects the virus may originate. No major hits have been reported in the UK.

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