New flaw manipulated by virus senders?

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From: Petr1fied (Petr1fied_at_NOSPAMmametitles.com)
Date: 05/09/04 

Date: Sat, 8 May 2004 19:01:21 -0700

I received an E-Mail which seems to have a very cunning
way of getting the user to open the attachment:-

Message Subject:

Mail Delivery (failure petr1fied@_MUNGED_mametitles.com)

Message Body:

"If the message will not displayed automatically,
follow the link to read the delivered message.

Received message is available at:
www.mametitles.com/inbox/petr1fied/read.php?sessionid-
7671"

Now the clever part is the Hyperlink doesn't go to the
url listed above instead it executes the following
command:-

cid:031401Mfdab4$3f3dL780$73387018@57W81fa70Re

This command seems to tell Outlook to Open the
attachment, which was already removed by my Virus
Protection.

Be careful if you receive something like this folks.

Petr1fied

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