Don't be fooled by an email circulating the Internet disguised PayPal account expiration notice. The worm will arrive in your email claiming that you must run the attachment to keep your PayPal account active. The attachment prompts you for private information including your credit card number, social security number and mother's maiden name. If you open the infected attachment, the virus will also send itself to email addresses it collects from your address book. Please always use extra caution when opening emails with attachments. I have persoanlly received over 60 of these in the last few weeks. I will not use Paypal due to its security problems and client problems so I have deleted every one right away.
For more information on this, please go to your antivirus software's website. All of them should have it up and listed since this is a fairly high incident level at the current time.
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