PayPal Credit Card Verification Virus

During the last week or so, I've been getting email after email after email from "PayPal Support" (not the real one) telling me I needed to update my credit card on file or else my account would be restricted. Being as I actually did have a credit card on file with PayPal that was expired last month I was almost taken in by the virus.

What caught my eye was that the email was sent to a different variation of my name than the one on file with PayPal. Luckily I had saved all my original emails from PayPal so I had something legit to compare to.

The other thing that caught my eye was the .scr attachment to the email. At that point, regardless of the appearance of the email (and it is an excellent spoof) I wasn't going to open it.

Keep a watch out for this one. It is well done and very convincing. Norton anti-virus didn't catch the first couple of worms. It was only my noticing the oddities in the emails that prevented there from being a problem for me.

The worm is apparently a variant of the MiMail I virus. But instead of just trying to harvest information for spammers this one is malicious.

Update your virus definitions and watch out for unsolicited emails from PayPal Support.