Katrina Malware - Trojan-Downloader.JS.Small.bq is at this website

 Be careful with website links in email messages.  It's a best practice to never click on a URL even to opt out of spam unless you are sure it can be trusted.  This breaking news story from an email message spammed to numerous individuals contains a hostile link that will download malware from the website to PCs that visit it. 

Katrina Malware - Trojan-Downloader.JS.Small.bq is at this website

F-Secure - September 1st Weblog identifies this new downloader trojan horse

Subject: Re: Katrina killed as many as 80 people.

Just before daybreak Tuesday, Katrina, now a tropical storm, was 35 miles northeast of Tupelo, Miss., moving north-northeast with  winds of 50 mph. Forecasters at the National Hurricane Center said the amount of rainfall has been adjusted downward Monday.  Mississippi Gov. Haley Barbour said Tuesday that Hurricane Katrina killed as many as 80 people in his state and burst levees in Louisiana flooded New Orleans. Read More

The Read More.. links to “nextermest . com” [DO NOT VISIT THIS SITE as Trojan-Downloader.JS.Small.bq is at this website]. It uses obfuscated javascript to download what looks like a .hta exploit.