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I'll repeat, I suspect these are actual attacks, possibly aimed at adult webmasters, not viruses, because of the small size of the payloads.
You can download attack tools from various "black" sites, these tools are uaually sent as attachments, but they are often smaller than viruses. They are usually things like backdoor installlers or keyboard sniffers or port sniffers.
It's easy to buy mailing lists of adult webmaster emails, and it would be easy for an attacker to use those freely available small size attack tools.
Of course, no-one but an idiot would click on an attachment, some hang-overs notwithstanding...
I don't strip off attachments automatically (for some reason people like sponsors, content providers, and hosting companies still use attachments), but I direct them to an "attachments" folder.
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