R: Strange and very small email - new virus

This is the header of the same message I got

Return-Path: <michelenapoli@*.it>
X-Original-To: michelenappa@*.it
Delivered-To: michelenappa@*.it
Received: from Antigua-p2Dunnmayda.net (unknown [196.28.63.41])
	by smtp-in2.email.it (Email.it) with SMTP id 6821EBC007
	for <michelenappa@*.it>; Fri, 22 Jul 2005 20:11:52 +0200 (CEST)

The attachment name was 1.txt containing two 20 ascii characters only.

Michele

-----Messaggio originale-----
Da: Joseph (Joe) Lynn [mailto:[email protected]] 
Inviato: mercoledì 27 luglio 2005 9.15
A: [email protected]; [email protected]
Oggetto: RE: Strange and very small email - new virus

Hi all,

We are receiving similar emails...

My Outlook reads the attachment as 91 bytes.

When you extract the attachment however, it shrinks to 2 bytes.
When opened in Notepad, there is no data inside.

It is very strange, as I can't see how a virus like this would spread -
even if it is a failed attempt at writing a virus, there must be another
part to it which is distributing the emails....

Anyone have any ideas?

Joe

-----Original Message-----
From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] 
Sent: 26 July 2005 19:36
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: Strange and very small email - new virus

Yes, we have gotten about 2 of these types of emails.  The file is a
named 1.txt (61 Bytes in size) and the email subject is "1".  We are a
company with about 35 email addresses under our domain and have received
viruses through some of them in the past.  This strange email has come
to 2 of our accounts - 1 last week and 1 today.  I got one today and did
a google search which led me to this site.  Very odd since the
attachment seems to have no virus payload which you would expect for
such a strange email.