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Subject: 
Virus Warning
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lugnet.general
Date: 
Thu, 15 May 2003 20:37:27 GMT
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To everyone,

I got a mail from a certain HEINO NOWATZKY witch got a lot of LUGNET users
email names in the Recipient list. It has following header:

Task Path From The M$ Corporation.

It has an atachment with a certain number .exe on it.
I guess it's a kind of virus / worm. My virus scanner didn't tell me so but
i removed it at once.

Be carefull if someone receives such a message.

Regards,
Ludo



Message has 2 Replies:
  Re: Virus Warning
 
(...) I received *three* from this fellow, plus three others. And I've been receiving this kind of e-mails since before Easter... a real pain, te erase an average of 3 attachments everyday :-( Pedro (21 years ago, 15-May-03, to lugnet.general)
  Re: Virus Warning
 
(...) There's a few going round that claim to be Microsoft updates. There's also a cunning one that pretends to be an undeliverable message (rather than a message sent back to you because the sender spoofed your address). The attachment, which looks (...) (21 years ago, 19-May-03, to lugnet.general)

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