Viruses in my mailbox

In a rather funny turn of events, I’ve received a mail in my inbox which was purported to be from myself. My first thought was that it was a virus, but the mail size was only 2K, unlike Netsky or Beagle which have larger sizes. Naturally I was rather intrigued and opened the file. I was a bit surprised when I got this message.

VIRUS INFECTION ALERT
The WebShield® e250 Appliance discovered a virus in this file. The file was not cleaned and has been removed.

See your system administrator for further information.

File name: Bill.zip
Virus name: W32/Netsky.z@MM!zip

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Now I’ve realized, no e-mail ID is safe from virus spammers.

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