The message I received was removed by MailSweeper. I know that there is a new virus called Mydoom.B that is going around. Here is what I found on Symantec's site.
[EMAIL PROTECTED] is a mass-mailing worm that arrives as an attachment with the file extension .bat, .cmd, .exe, .pif, .scr, or .zip. When a computer is infected, the worm will set up a backdoor into the system, which can potentially allow an attacker to connect to the computer and use it as a proxy to gain access to its network resources. In addition, the backdoor can download and execute arbitrary files. The worm will perform a Denial of Service (DoS) against www.microsoft.com starting February 3, 2004 and www.sco.com starting February 1, 2004. It also has a trigger date to stop spreading on March 1, 2004. These events will only occur if the worm is run between or after those dates. While the worm will stop spreading on March 1, 2004, the backdoor component will continue to function after this date. -----Original Message----- From: Hardy Merrill [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 11:17 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Hello Just checking - is everyone else seeing messages lately like the one below, or is it just me. The attachment is always 'Readme.zip'. The messages may be valid and it might be our email server software here doing this, but I'm not sure. Looks suspect to me so I haven't opened the attachment. The message below was from [EMAIL PROTECTED] who I recognize from this list. Thanks. Hardy Merrill >>> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 01/27/04 04:37AM >>> The message contains Unicode characters and has been sent as a binary attachment.
