Please do not open any unsolicited email messages that have the subject of “Hi” and include an attachment. This is a more aggressive version of what we went through last fall.
Story link:
http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/SciTech/ap20040120_780.html
I was wondering about it and I actually got my first one in my home email account. Deleted it immediately.
Got one that slipped through our city server and deleted it right off after printing the page. Don’t know if this was that Bagle virus, but I didn’t know the sender!
Thanks for the heads up.
If you don’t know who is sending it and why DELETE IT IMMEDIATELY, then empty your trash can.
Good advice
MarkB
I was getting (and reflexively deleting) so many of these that I set SpamKiller to filter out anything with ‘hi’ in the subject line. Occasionally I have to recover a legit message that includes that character sequence, but its a tiny proportion of the junk that gets filtered out.
I guess I’m lucky I’ve only gotten two or three of them. Of course, when I go into the office tomorrow things might be different there.
Probably not zoonotic, as far as I know…hooray for Macs!
I set my filter so that only messages from people I selected get into my inbox. Everything else is sent to a different folder. I open that folder once in awhile to check if anything might be something I want to see. For example, advertising from someplace where I actually buy things from.
After checking, I use control-A to select them all and hit the delete key. They all disapear at once. Of course the preview pane is turned off. That should be the first thing anyone using windows products should do.
Angelo
There’s also an email going around which purports to come from “security” at Microsoft with an .exe attachment which you are urged to open immediately. DON’T GO NEAR IT!
Fortunately, my Yahoo server caught it and informed me about it, though it probably wouldn’t have hurt the Mac. It was sent to me yesterday.
I read my main email account on a Linux machine using a text-mode mail program (Elm).
I don’t even bother to filter most of this - it’s so easy just to zoom down the list of headers deleting the unwanted (20 seconds or so a day for over 100 items in my inbox) and selecting the occasional needed item.
But though it’s easy, this exercise allows you to see just how much junk is out there - not just the virus-originated stuff, but all the spam. I’ve come to the point I think spammers should be suspened by their toes over a pit of boiling lava 
Virus writers should be suspended in the same place by their genitals 
I was getting this message from myself (apparently) and from accounts which, as far as I know, do not exist. I checked to find out.
One look at the message and I was suspicious. Somehow, these troublesome enclosures are very easy to detect, even when they seem to come from someone you know. The trick is this. Ask if there is any indication in the message as to what is in the enclosure? If not, delete. Ask if the enclosure was something you were expecting if it doesn’t come from someone you get messages from regularly and with adequate explanation in the text message. If not, delete.
Get Linux.
Sorry, couldn’t resist… 
Macs rule.
Seriously…
I’ve mentioned before I’m considering purchasing a second computer for home and am actually undecided between a PC or a Mac.
Then I hear about yet another virus, and the Mac option surges ahead in the polls.