Renew your email account because it's been suspended-Fiction!

Your Email Privileges Will be Suspended if You Don't Sign Up Afresh-Fiction!

Summary of the eRumor
This message says your email account is being disabled because of "improper using."
You are supposed to click an attachment to sign up again.

The Truth
This is not technically a virus, according to the virus experts, but it does contain "malicious code" designed to take over the computer and use it for sending massive numbers of emails.

If you receive it, it's not from your email server or Internet Service Provider.

Don't click the attachment!

A real example of the eRumor as it has appeared on the Internet:

Dear user of {YourDomain}

Your e-mail account will be disabled because of improper using in next three days, if you are still wishing to use it, please, resign your account information.

Pay attention on attached file.

For security reasons attached file is password protected. The password is "12181".

Sincerely, The {YourDomain} team http://www.{YourDomain}