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Halloween spam that invites recipients to visit a website and download a program that purports to create a novelty 'dancing skeleton' on the user's desktop.

But victims will be exposed to vulnerability exploits and an executable file named 'halloween.exe'.

This is a copy of the Storm Trojan which compromises the user's PC and merges it into a network of computers that can be commandeered remotely by a controlling server.

DO NOT OPEN messages that arrive with subject lines:

'For people with a sense of humour only'

'Halloween Fun'

'Happy Halloween'

'If your in your office, keep the speakers low, lol'

'Nothing is funnier this Halloween'

'Party on this Halloween'

'The most amazing dancing skeleton'

'This will make you laugh'

'You'll laugh your but off'

Have a happy-email day!