Unfortunately, this trojan horse disguised as breaking news coincided with one of Europe's most fercious storms. Please avoid all attachments on breaking news emails and check major news sites instead for pertinent information.

Storm Worm rages across the globe
http://articles.techrepublic.com.com/2100-1009_11-6151414.html

QUOTE: "Storm Worm," one of the larger Trojan horse attacks in recent years, is baiting people with timely information about a deadly, real-life front, security researchers said Friday.  Over an eight-hour period Thursday, malicious e-mails were sent across the globe to hundreds of thousands of people, said Mikko Hypponen, chief research officer for F-Secure. 

Storm Worm is already close to being as large as the bigger attacks of 2006, Hypponen said, though it's still smaller than Sasser and Slammer.  People who open the attachment then unknowingly become part of a botnet. A botnet serves as an army of commandeered computers, which are later used by attackers without their owners' knowledge.

Additional Links below:

McAfee - DAT 4943 provides protection
http://vil.nai.com/vil/content/v_141316.htm

McAfee - Extra DAT protection
To receive an extra.dat file for this threat please visit: https://www.webimmune.net/extra/getextra.aspx

F-Secure: Small.DAM definition
http://www.f-secure.com/v-descs/small_dam.shtml

F-Secure: Storm-Worm spreads Quickly
http://www.f-secure.com/weblog/archives/archive-012007.html#00001087

EMAIL TO AVOID:

Subject:
230 dead as storm batters Europe
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has kicked German Chancellor Angela Merkel
A killer at 11, he''s free at 21 and kill again!
British Muslims Genocide

Attachment:  Read More.exe, Full Clip.exe, Full Story.exe, Video.exe