VERY nasty mass mailing

Has anyone received the following mass mailing (attached in entirety below)?
This all but convinces me that the security companies, and Symantec in
particular, are simply fearmongers.  This mail does nobody any good except
Synmantec.

Of course, if you want to get REAL conspiracy theorist, you could I suppose
say that perhaps it came from a competitor, looking to discredit Symantec.
Or perhaps just someone really bored.

But in any event, this email really ticks me off.  Can anyone manage to
track it to its source?  If so, I'd love to send the sender a few choice
e-words.

Joe


"Shelly & Jeff,

I received a message (below) from joepluta@plutabrothers.com with a file
2.30.26.zip attached.  Don't know if this came from you, but this type of
e-mail and file usually contains a virus.  If you don't know that your
computer has been sending this message, then you have a problem.

W32.Klez.gen@mm is a mass-mailing worm that searches the Windows address
book for email addresses and sends messages to all recipients that it finds.
The worm uses its own SMTP engine to send the messages. The worm will select
an address in the address book and use that as the sender, instead of the
actual sending computer, which makes detection that much harder.

This threat is detected by the latest Virus Definitions.All computer users
should employ safe computing practices, including:
       * Keeping your Virus Definitions updated.
       * Installing Norton AntiVirus program updates, when available.
       * Deleting suspicious looking emails.

You may also scan your PC for threats now, by using the free online Symantec
Security Check.

Hope you're not infected, because dealing with a computer virus is no fun!
But, in case you are and you weren't aware, I'm sending this to you.  Here
is the original message:


In a message dated 8/31/2002 10:03:09 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
joepluta@plutabrothers.com writes:



File:2.30.26.zip (42924 bytes) DL Time (44000 bps): < 1 minute
Sent from the Internet

Klez.E is the most common world-wide spreading worm.It's very dangerous by
corrupting your files.
Because of its very smart stealth and anti-anti-virus technic,most common AV
software can't detect or clean it.
We developed this free immunity tool to defeat the malicious virus.
You only need to run this tool once,and then Klez will never come into your
PC.
NOTE: Because this tool acts as a fake Klez to fool the real worm,some AV
monitor maybe cry when you run it.
If so,Ignore the warning,and select 'continue'.
If you have any question,please mail to me. "