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This information was just passed to me by a friend, a few minutes ago, so I thought it important enough to pass along here.

McAfee is reporting a large uptick in the number of Trojan adware installs via bogus MP3 files on file sharing networks. Masquerading as audio files with real-sounding names, the Trojans install adware on users' PCs. Once someone tries to open the files, they are asked to sign an end-user agreement and then the program installs two Trojan files - NetNucleus and Mirar. Once installed, the infected machines start serving up popup ads. Over the last 24 hours, McAfee reports that nearly one third of all McAfee clients reporting results back to the company have detected these files.

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System #1: Microsoft Windows Xp Pro 2002 SP3/Windows XP Pro X64 Edition 2003 SP2. AMD Athlon (tm) 64x2 Dual Core Processor 5000+ 3.01 GHz. 4 x 2GB of RAM.
Samsung TSSTcorp SH-S203B (SB03 FB FR), Pioneer DVR-215D (1.13), LG HL-DT-ST GSA H62N (CL01),
Plextor PX-716A (1.11), & external LG GSA-H10N (JL12).

System #2: Microsoft Windows Xp Pro 2002 SP3. Intel (R) Pentium (R) D CPU 2.66 GHz 2.66 GHz 2 GBs RAM.
Samsung SH-S182D (SB06), Plextor PX-810SA (1.01), Samsung SH-S203B (SB03 FB FR), Samsung SH-S202J (SB01).

System specs as of 04052008