On Sunday, February 9, 2003, at 07:46 PM, Harry Jacobson-Beyer wrote: > I've been getting strange messages which I assume are spam or something > coming from someone's infected computer. > > the most recent message came from: gwishw <gwishw at hotmail.com> > > > The messages have two attachments one of which is readme.1.txt and the > other is readme.bat. > > The readme.1.txt starts out like this: > > > > Microsoft Windows Millennium Edition > > Help for Emergency Startup Disk > ----------------------------------------- > > (c) Copyright Microsoft Corporation, 2000 > > This document provides complementary or late-breaking > > information to supplement the Windows Millennium Edition > > (Windows ME) documentation. > > To close this Help file, press ALT-F-X. > > > I deleted most of the file. Oh and there was a message in the body of > the > email. However the message doesn't forward nor can I cut and paste it. > Here it is: > > This is a WinXP patch > I wish you would enjoy it. > > Anyone know what's going on? > > Harry > > > > | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will > | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>. >
Someone on a windows box somewhere is infected with the Klez virus. It is a fairly dangerous virus and one of the most widely spread in the past few years. It will pick a file from a user's hard drive at random, attach it to an email, and choose two random names from the user's address book, selecting one as the sender, the other as the recipient. So, most likely, the person whose name appears at the top of your email was not the sender, but someone who knows you and the "sender." Bryan C. Forrest Macintosh Specialist LifeNet http://www.lifenet.org | The next meeting of the Louisville Computer Society will | be February 25. The LCS Web page is <http://www.kymac.org>.
