Re: [NTLK] VIRUS ALERT

From: Dr. Faustus (dr_faustus_at_pcisys.net)
Date: Sat Oct 12 2002 - 04:13:45 EDT


At 23:26 10/11/2002 -0700, Steve Payonzeck wrote:

>Some dickhead claiming to be 'A Netwonian' is sending
>out an email in which he claims to have been in touch
>with Iambic - and he attached a file he says is from
>Iambic - it's infected with W32.Bugbear_at_mm DO NOT OPEN
>IT IF YOUR ON A WINTEL - A mac SHOULD be ok, but
>delete it anyway. The sender is from "A Newtonian"
><a_newtonian_at_aol.com>" and the enclosure is titled
>'womanglow.jpg.scr'

Cut him some slack. It's probably a spoofed from: header. And if it
isn't, he probably has no idea the email is being sent out.

Andy

Just wrote a procmail filter to send any email with a .scr attachment to
/dev/null. not a bad idea if you haven't done it...

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