>Beware of new virus tricks.
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>Most of us here probably know the trick of using a double extension, hoping that the second extension is hidden by default: Sample.txt.exe; the user might see Sample.txt.
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>Today I got a virus that uses an interesting variation of this trick, with a name like:
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>test.jpg               .exe
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>... or some other executable extension. Note that there are lots of spaces in the filename. All this comes within a ZIP file.
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>The EXE extension might easily be overlooked in this case; it might even be invisible, depending on the column widths in your decompression program.

This has been going on for a while. The extensions can also be .pif, .scr, .com, and other ones that will execute. It has been requested from the powers that be that when the subject is shown to you it is trimmed of any spaces (even in between), which will make this easily visible.

Regardless, always remember to teach your friends and family to *NEVER* click on unknown, unexpected attachments, etc, etc.