[EUG-LUG:2562] Re: strange unsolicited email

[Curt Barnes]

At 11:16 PM 8/28/2001 -0700, you wrote:

On Tue, Aug 28, 2001 at 11:10:24PM -0700, Ben Barrett wrote:

>Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

>

>Maybe the matrix has me, but I got some funny "spam":

>> Hi! How are you?

>>

>> I send you this file in order to have your advice

>>

>> See you later. Thanks

>

>The single attachment is called Oct.2000.xls.pif.txt

>and pine 3.96 says it is 223k but could only write

>~163k before crapping on some 64-bit mime error.

>There is a 0-line 3rd attachment, to boot.

>This is a win32 binary, which was compiled with

>Borland's Delphi and has a lot of references to

>the kernel... some plaintext error messages seem

>so unix-like, hum.

>

>Anyone have any idea about this?  it came from a

>.ca domain... magma.ca in ottowa, seems to be a content

>provider or isp or something.

Erm, i'm not sure if this is a troll.  If not, you have at long last encountered

the SirCam email infection.  You must not get much email from windows users.

Our mail admin here has received more than 500 megabytes of SirCam attachments,

counting the various places from which he gets mail.

--

"If my son wants to be a pimp when he grows up, that's fine with me.  I

hope he's a good one and enjoys it and doesn't get caught. I'll support

him in this. But if he wants to be a network administrator, he's out of

the house and not part of my family." Steve Wozniak, http://www.woz.org

We received an email from you that contained a virus. This message is typically caused by your computer being infected by a virus that automatically sends email to people in your address book.

The body of the email contains the following text:
Hi! How are you?
I send you this file in order to have your advice
See you later. Thanks

It also includes an attachment that is infected with a Worm Virus. For more information, please visit the following website:


http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]





Please do not send further emails to this address until this issue has been taken care of.

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