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Re: Virus Warning
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lugnet.general
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Mon, 19 May 2003 13:01:04 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Ludo Soete writes:
> To everyone,
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> 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:
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> Task Path From The M$ Corporation.
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> 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.
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> Be carefull if someone receives such a message.
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> Regards,
> Ludo
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 like a returned email you can open, is actually a
.exe file - a virus.
I thought I'd seen all the tricks before, but this one caught me out.
Fortunately the anti-virus trapped it.
I think these are getting round because someone receiving LUGNET by e-mail
has caught the virus, so all our e-mail addresses are available for it to
spread to.
Jason Railton
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