I got a fake email from amazon (yes, i order books) customer care with this in the subject line:
Order Confirmation number: Z3566043
then i read on, it has a FDX tracking number and it showed a HUGE dollar amount… so I (stupidly) opened the attachment (a zip) file and…
CRASH…
sooo… HOURS of work later (thanks to Symantec’s instructions!!) I am fixed, clean and up and running…
the virus is called Backdoor.Haxdoor.O, Symantec has a good description of the virus and the strategy… click here to check it out…
…be careful out there!
Trojan virus WARNING
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