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Todays E-School is a virus alert on a virus called "MiMail.A", a virus that is rapidly spreading mainly througout the US. Steven Sundermeier, vice president of products and services at security firm Central Command, said: "Worm/MiMail.A is spreading globally at an alarming rate. "Our preliminary virus tracking report shows that US-based computer users are being the hardest hit thus far: at this time, 61 per cent of the confirmed infection reports have originated in the US."

The worm uses and exploit in Microsoft Internet Explorer that allows the virus to create an executable file and run it. The virus spreads by sending itself to the addresses on the infected users computer. Here are the details of the email:
Subject: your account [account info]

Body: Hello there, I would like to inform you about important information regarding your email address. This email address will be expiring. Please read attachment for details.

Best regards, Administrator
Attachment: message.zip

Although this information may change (subject can easily be changed). But these are the details that are reported so far.

A patch from Microsoft is available here. http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;330994