That's pretty much what I determined as well.  It's a smart one.  I'm
impressed.  Unfortunately, the payload is glaringly obvious, so it's not
a perfect bit of skullduggery.

- Jim

Michael Dinowitz wrote:

>The virus is stealthing itself by using a previous post. That is, unless the
>virus is writing tech question postings which I kind of doubt.
>That would be cool though. A virus that scans the infected persons filters
>or addresses for certain key addresses or lists and then forms the virus
>text based on them. It would send CF sounding text if the person is on a CF
>list, sewing sounding text if they're on an sewing list, etc. The assumption
>would be that if a person is on a list of a specific type then the people in
>the address book will probably be of the same type and be more inclined to
>open a virus that if targeting their interests.
>An AI virus. cool
>
>
>  
>
>>I got the same thing, subject line:  FW: SQL Server full-text search
>>
>>with the following text:
>>
>>It's not just letters that cause the SQL Server error -- see question I
>>posed to MDCFUG list below -- any ideas...
>>---------------------------------
>>An using full-text search from Cold Fusion 5 against SQL P
>>
>>
>>containing the 'acrobat' file.  weird.
>>
>>
>>  ----- Original Message -----
>>  From: Paul Ihrig
>>  To: CF-Community
>>  Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 6:30 AM
>>  Subject: RE: Strange virus email today
>>
>>
>>  i got one
>>  -----Original Message-----
>>
>>  From: Arden Weiss [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>
>>  Sent: Friday, October 31, 2003 12:57 AM
>>
>>  Subject: More SQL Server date stuff...
>>
>>    -----Original Message-----
>>    From: Jim Campbell [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>    Sent: Thursday, October 30, 2003 5:54 PM
>>    To: CF-Community
>>    Subject: Strange virus email today
>>
>>    Has anyone else recieved something like this?
>>
>>    ----------
>>
>>    From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>    Subject: Use "LIKE" instead of "CONTAINS"
>>    Body: To make it work correctly I had to use "LIKE" instead of
>>    "CONTAINS" Not sure what good "CONTAINS" is with so many "Ignored
>>   
>>
>words"
>  
>
>>    Anyhow the new query condition is as follows (note the LIKE command
>>   
>>
>and
>  
>
>>    ----------
>>
>>    It contained a .pif file (Acrobat1.bmp.pif), but it stood out since it
>>    masquerades as an email I might get from a list like this or CF-Talk.
>>    I'm on several other tech lists as well, but I wanted to give you all
>>   
>>
>a
>  
>
>>    heads up to this one.  It might be just another Outlook Address Book
>>    virus, but FYI.
>>
>>    - Jim
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>   
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