Virus Spam

Spams car­ry­ing vir­uses aren’t any­thing new but every now and again some­thing comes into my email box that is a bit dif­fer­ent. Like this one.

Dear user of textuality.com, mail system administrator of 
textuality.com would like to let you know the following.

We have detected that your account was used to send a 
huge amount of spam during this week.
Obviously, your computer was infected and now contains a 
trojan proxy server.

We recommend that you follow our instructions in the 
attachment in order to keep your computer safe.

Virtually yours,
textuality.com support team.

Since the email was­n’t from my ISP, and if there’s a “mail sys­tem admin­strat­or” that isn’t my ISP, it would be me, it’s obvi­ous that this is spam. Even without those clues, the email is sus­pi­cious. The wor­ry­ing thought is that it has per­haps just enough per­son­al­iz­a­tion to dupe some people into open­ing the attachment.