Hi, Skippy:
Yes, it is one of the current crop of virii and worms. I read the
description a few days ago, but did not retain much of what I read.
The request for advice is its hallmark.
Doubtless someone on the list will furnish all the gory details.
Regards,
Glenn
On Sunday 05 August 2001 03:43 pm, Keith Antoine observed:
> Umm, I am I guess niave when it comes to virii and worms. Just in
> case I took a does of combatrin today, just in case I had been
> infected by worms.
>
> After i had installed the WS 3.1 and started it up and got kmail
> working, I downloaded mail and also sent a message to say i was
> backup in Linux. I saw a mail notificaion in the list::-
> slamdunk 1 Sun Aug 5 2001
>
> The name alerted me, so I looked at it::- (I have only included the
> text)
>
>
>
>
>
> slamdunk
> From: "1"<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Date: Sun, 5 Aug 2001 05:25:26 +0900
>
>
> ------168E5737_Outlook_Express_message_boundary
> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
> Content-Disposition: message text
>
> Hi! How are you=3F
>
> I send you this file in order to have your advice
>
> See you later=2E Thanks
>
> ------168E5737_Outlook_Express_message_boundary
> Content-Type: application/mixed; name=slamdunk.zip.bat
> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
> Content-Disposition: attachment; filename=slamdunk.zip.bat
>
> After this is a coded area ending with a another::
> Outlook_express_message_boundary (comment)
>
> It was a bit hard to get rid of and the computer slowed down. I am
> guessing that its a virus of some type, but seeing it was undone in
> linux it was not operative, even though it seemed to try.
>
> BTW I have not destroyed this as yet.
>
> On another tack entirely, I had backgrounds working but saw that they
> were not those I had listed. They were coming from the same area but
> it was giving me 'all' and not a selection I had made. I stopped this
> and now once again no backgrounds, I assume this is a kde problem.
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Glenn Williams - [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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