quoth Joel Hammer: | your_details.zip | | Does anyone know what this email attachment is? This is a zip file | which contains a pif file. It seems to be a windows targeted nasty.
http://www.computerworld.com/securitytopics/security/virus/story/0,10801,82512,00.html?nas=AM-82512 "The worm affects network PCs that run the Windows 95/98/Me and Windows NT/2000 operating systems, according to Sophos. It spreads by scouring an infected computer's hard drive for e-mail addresses in address books or even Web browser cache files, then sends itself out to the addresses it finds. It can spoof its sender's address, so the recipients believe they are receiving a message from someone they know. "This is the latest in a series of Sobig worms in recent months, Cluley said. The new version is being sent as a .zip file, perhaps to allow it to spread in corporate environments where .exe and other file types are automatically blocked in incoming e-mails, he said. 'It's hard to speculate' why the new approach was taken, Cluley said." -- dep http://www.linuxandmain.com -- outside the box, barely within the envelope, and no animated paperclip anywhere. _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
