Here's a real virus alert, came in at my library workplace today. I'm posting on this old thread instead of the recent joke "virus alert" in hopes that it will be taken seriously.--SRS

To All Staff:

It has been reported that W32.IRCBot.B may arrive in an email message about a fake program update for Norton Antivirus. The sender, updates@symantec.com, is a spoofed email address. Symantec never sends unsolicited email; the attachment should be deleted.

The email message may appear as shown below:

From: updates@symantec.com (spoofed email address)
Subject: Last Update.
Body: October 06, 2003
Intruder Alert 4.1 W32_Webb_Worm Policy
This policy detects the propagation of the W32.SobigF.Worm though changes in the registry.

W32.Webb.F@mm is a mass-mailing, network-aware worm that sends itself to all the email addresses it finds in various files. The worm uses its own SMTP engine to propagate and attempts to create a copy of itself on accessible network shares, but fails due to bugs in the code.

In attachment you can find program that update your Norton Antivirus to Norton Antivirus 2004.
Attachment: nav32.zip



Please don't open the attachment, just DELETE the email.

Thank You.