Every now and again, I get this funny email telling me that I have updated my aquaria account, and it has a funny attachment. Seeing as how I run the aquaria.za.net site, I know for a fact that firstly, the account that the email claims to have been sent from, does not exist and secondly, even if I did update my password, there would be absolutely no reason for there to be an attachment. The final problem with this whole thing is that I log into the site basically every day, so I also know that my password has not been changed.

I am posting this for one reason. To inform people who have signed up with this site (for various reasons) that this is a virus hoax and is not being sent by this site or by anyone directly involved with this site. I doubt that anyone other than myself has actually recieved this mail (I am pretty sure that it is because my email address is known) however I just wanted to be sure that people know about this.

The email I received looks like this:

 Dear user illumination,

You have successfully updated the password of your Aquaria account.

If you did not authorize this change or if you need assistance with your account, please contact Aquaria customer service at: admin @ aquaria . za . net

Thank you for using Aquaria!
The Aquaria Support Team






+++ Attachment: No Virus (Clean)
+++ Aquaria Antivirus - www.aquaria.za.net

(Note I added the spaces to the mail address)

 The attachment is a zip file called "accepted-password.zip" which contains the W32/Mytob-AS virus. The important thing to be aware of is that on Windows XP, just hovering over the zip file with the mouse attempts to run the virus inside the zip (Well, ok, I don't think it is attempting to run it, but it is accessing the file, and my virus software didn't like that). This is what Sophos Anti-virus had to say:

For more information, you can go to the Sophos website.