# Ignore emails warning of account suspension by fundraising.co.uk

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2005/06/05/ignore-emails-warning-account-suspension-fundraisingcouk/
- Published: 2005-06-05T23:00:00+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

If like us you are receiving a stream of emails apparently from fundraising.co.uk
warning that your email account has been suspended, blocked or otherwise closed ‘
for security reasons’, feel free to ignore it. It is not from us, and indeed is 
almost certainly infected with the W32.Mytob.CH@mm virus.
Usually we don’t bother
to comment on the numerous email viruses that plague so many Internet users, but
this virus attack has certainly been sustained over a period of a week or more. 
We are receiving a dozen or more such messages each day, all of which purport to
come from ‘we*******@************co.uk‘, ‘se*****@************co.uk‘, ‘ad***********@************
co.uk‘ or other similar variants.

Most of these addresses we do not use, but occasionally the virus-infected messages
use a genuine email address that we use for administrative purposes.

According to anti-virus experts Symantec, “W32.Mytob.CH@mm is a mass-mailing worm
with back door functionality that uses its own SMTP engine to send an email to addresses
that it gathers from the compromised computer.”

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It can be detected and removed using current anti-virus definitions from Symantec
and other anti-virus software vendors.

So, we’d ask you not to assume that fundraising.co.uk has been compromised, and 
simply to continue applying up-to-date anti-virus software against all emails you
receive.

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