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The presentation, which reportedly contains 18 humorous slides about men and women, is attached to an e-mail from a Google GMail address.
Windows users have been warned by software company Microsoft about the 'zero day' virus, which uses the PowerPoint program to take over PCs.
The company said a 'poisoned' presentation is attached to the virus, that installs keylogging software on a computer. When opened, the virus records everything typed on the infected machine.
Micrtosoft aims to release a patch on 8 August 2006 to protect against the bug, which has so far been found in PowerPoint 2000, 2002 and 2003, and urged users not to open or save unexpected PowerPoint files, even those from trusted sources.
The presentation, which reportedly contains 18 humorous slides about men and women, is attached to an e-mail from a Google GMail address. Microsoft said the attack will only be carried out if the user opens the PowerPoint presentation attached to the e-mail, and claimed attacks have been 'limited' to date.
According to security companies, Chinese characters are used in the e-mail's subject line and the virus mianly targets companies in Asia.
The virus began circulating the day after Microsoft issued its most recent security update and is thought to have been timed deliberately to give the virus the chance to propogate before Microsoft is able to close the loophole.
Anyone got this e-mail?
