Warning me about a worm in order to install a worm

*Man, these evil hucksters get a little more

diabolically self-referential every day.

This just in:

From: [email protected]

Subject: Mail System Error - Returned Mail

Date: July 26, 2004 10:21:48 AM CDT

To: [email protected]

Dear user of well.com, Mail server administrator of well.com would like to inform you that,

Your account was used to send a huge amount of spam during this week.

Obviously, your computer had been infected by a recent virus and now runs a hidden proxy server.

We recommend that you follow our instructions in the attachment in order to keep your computer safe.

Virtually yours,

The well.com team.

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*Good thing I'm a Mac guy.