Better yet, did you get your email with subject PayPal E-TAN Software Nr… ? No? OK, you are lucky then, because this is one of the more recent spams with attached malware. This time the targets are German speaking people, since the mail is in German. Look this exerpt:

“Wichtig
Mit diesem Schreiben erhalten Sie einmalig ein Exemplar von Ihrem personlichen E-TAN Generator ID .”

This E-TAN generator software, which is included as an attachment, called E-TAN Software_2.68.zip is actually a Downloader which will try to download other pieces of malware to your machine, from 10 different websites. Malware such as a Generic Spy. Most of the sites are .de, but there is also one .com, one .org and one .br.

Yes, divide and conquer! So, beware of this new threat…