On 25 Jul 2004, at 12:06, Curt Purdy wrote:
Todd Towles wrote:
I received an e-mail today that looked very much like a virus. Here is the message

Attachment - erupts.avi.exe

Subject - New Southern California wildfire erupts

<snip>

Either this is a new Trojan that changes it body and subject based on the current AP news or someone used a very lame trick against me. =)

I'm guessing the latter. Although story scraping would be possible,
intellegent naming of the .exe would not be. Most likely a friend... or
enemy.

Sure it would be. In this case, at least, the executable is just named based on the last word of the headline plus ".avi.exe".

Attachment: PGP.sig
Description: This is a digitally signed message part



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