New email worm is Scold outside

By Matt Whipp

Posted on 11 Dec 2003 at 11:27

MessageLabs has warned of a new virus that has appeared yesterday, of which it has already detected several thousand copies in the wild.

Scold-MM was first intercepted yesterday and appeared to originate from France. However, MessageLabs says it has since detected more than 2,000 copies as far afield as Egypt and Australia.

Scold-MM arrives as an email with the subject line: 'When It?s Cold Outside She Gives Me Warm Inside' and includes random text in the message.

It also includes an .scr attachment with a random file name.

On an infected machine it will harvest email addresses found locally and send itself on to them.

Users should update their antivirus products.