Trojan horse poses as friendly mail

NEWS An email claiming to originate from security mailing list SecurityFocus and anti-virus company TrendMicro actually contains a Trojan Horse virus. The email message appears in the user's inbox with an executable attachment named FIX_NIMDA.exe. The name bears similarities to TrendMicro's AV tool to remove the Nimda virus. SecurityFocus has sent emails to its global distribution list to warn users about the Trojan. A warning on the SecurityFocus site reads: "Do not run this attachment. These messages do not come from TrendMicro or SecurityFocus, as a quick check of the headers will reveal. SecurityFocus will never send executable attachments claiming to be a fix to any worm or vulnerability. If you have received a similar message we would like to hear from you." A link to a patch can be found from http://www.SecurityFocus.com.