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Email
Offering Information From an Airline about an "e-ticket"-Virus!
Summary of the eRumor: You receive an email with a subject line an an
attachment that says something about an e-ticket. The email appears
to be from an airline.
The Truth: According to US-Cert (The United States
Computer Emergency Readiness Team), this email may include a virus.
The email started appearing in inboxes at the end of July, 2008.
US-Cert said that the email appears to be from legitimate airlines and
appears to include information about an e-ticket.
The subject line may be "E-Ticket#XXXXXXXX" (with the X's representing
numbers).
It may include an attachment with a name like "eTicket#XXXX.zip."
Do not open the attachment or you may end up with a computer infected with
a virus.
