On Tuesday 27 January 2004 08:25, Ulrich Staudinger wrote: >i am just one of the readers, but in the last weeks i see more and > more of these messages: > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >>The message cannot be represented in 7-bit ASCII encoding and has >> been sent as a binary attachment. > Listen up folks, this is the latest windows worm, called [EMAIL PROTECTED] and a few other things. You can check at the Norton and mcafee sites to confirm.
Its payload is an automatic install on a windows box, any windows back to 95 and up to XP. In addition to mailing itself to everyone in your address book, making it a pita, it is also programmed to start a ddos against www.sco.com starting Feb 1 and ending Feb 12. Frankly it looks to be designed to put IBM and linux in a very poor light at the court hearings now postponed till next week. We should do everything we can to contain this one. Your email agent will report a filesize in the 34.5kb area if it shows that data to you. Delete it on sight please. >------------------------------------------------------- >The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 >Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration >See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. >http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn >_______________________________________________ >Alsa-user mailing list >[EMAIL PROTECTED] >https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user -- Cheers, Gene "There are four boxes to be used in defense of liberty: soap, ballot, jury, and ammo. Please use in that order." -Ed Howdershelt (Author) 99.22% setiathome rank, not too shabby for a WV hillbilly Yahoo.com attornies please note, additions to this message by Gene Heskett are: Copyright 2004 by Maurice Eugene Heskett, all rights reserved. ------------------------------------------------------- The SF.Net email is sponsored by EclipseCon 2004 Premiere Conference on Open Tools Development and Integration See the breadth of Eclipse activity. February 3-5 in Anaheim, CA. http://www.eclipsecon.org/osdn _______________________________________________ Alsa-user mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/alsa-user
