Threat Alert Summary: Spam Soap has issued a Threat Alert, based on a large volume of incoming messages containing harmful worm-infected .exe files. Spam Soap updated its spam and virus filters Sunday at 12:13 p.m. PDT (7:13 p.m. Greenwich Mean Time).
Subject Lines: The worm is generally transmitted via emails that appear to announce breaking news stories and which contain subject lines that include, but are not limited to:
- USA Just Have Started World War III
- Missile Strike: The USA kills more that 20000 Iranian citizens
- Israel Just Have Started World War III
- USA Missile Strike: Iran War just have started
- British Muslims Genocide
Attachment Filenames: The worm is generally transmitted via emails that appear to announce breaking news stories and which contain subject lines that include, but are not limited to:
- video.exe
- click here.exe
- clickme.exe
- readme.exe
- read more.exe
In the event a user receives an email with one of the headlines listed above in the Subject line, Spam Soap recommends deleting it immediately. If the email has been opened, users are warned not to open the attachment, which would unleash the Trojan horse on the user’s computer.
Spam Soap Multi-Layered, Managed Protection Against Email Viruses and Worms
Spam Soap provides a multi-layered, fully managed virus protection that delivers optimum protection from worms and viruses at the Internet level – before they can enter and damage a customer’s corporate messaging infrastructure.
Spam Soap’s Complete Email Security solutions leverage’s MX Logic’s proprietary WormTraq® worm detection system, which uses sophisticated content behavior analysis to rapidly identify and intercept zero-hour threats – threats that appear before an anti-virus signature is developed to detect them. Spam Soap also incorporates virus protection from three leading anti-virus engines – Authentium®, McAfee® and Sophos®—which are updated every five minutes to ensure the most current virus and worm protection.
Spam Soap’s multi-layered virus and worm protection frees internal corporate IT resources from managing timely signature updates by shifting the burden of threat management away from the enterprise to Spam Soap. Spam Soap’s Complete Email Security solutions also allow IT administrators the ability to respond to infected email by choosing to have viruses stripped from incoming email, quarantining infected messages for review, or blocking infected email outright.