On 9 Aug 2003, Roger Oberholtzer wrote: > Has anyone been getting an email from [EMAIL PROTECTED] (where > your.domain is your domain)? > > It has text like this: > > Hello there, > > I would like to inform you about important information regarding your > email address. This email address will be expiring. > Please read attachment for details. > > --- > Best regards, Administrator > maomnron > > It message also contains a zip attachment (message.zip) that contains an > html doc (message.html) that is really a multipart doc with an encoded > binary executable called foo.exe and some html code to run foo.exe > > Some new virus? Or other nonsense? I cannot exercise it as we don't do > windows. (OK. I did clean the front windows this morning, but even there > the point is that I do not want to see windows...)
The attachment contains a virus called mimail (if I rmemeber correctly). The company I worked for was hit very hard about a week ago. The entire mail system slowed while the IT folks tried to find all the infected systems. The virus scanners all flag this now. -- Gerry "The lyfe so short, the craft so long to learne" Chaucer _______________________________________________ Linux-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] Unsubscribe/Suspend/Etc -> http://www.linux-sxs.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
