I use Cygwin Mutt 1.2.5i (2000-07-05) on Win2000 and just got messages from two people with a short text message saying "Your password is 12zxjkjl123kjl12jz". But the size of each of the messages, according to Mutt, was 65k. After viewing the message with the default viewer (only), my virus protector popped up with a message to the effect that c:\tmp\mutt-mutt-LEPIDUS-2136-12 was infected with the Exploit.IFrame.FileDownload virus. Before deleting, I looked at its file entry -- it was roughly 250k and bore a time-stamp of several minutes earlier, when I had been reading the message. I saved one of the messages to a file named "virus" and tried opening it with vim, but got a message like "file is readonly". I deleted that too.
According to F-Secure Web site, this is a virus that exploits a flaw in Internet Explorer, and by extension mail readers that use it, such as Outlook. No surprise there! The only surprise to me is that 250k infected file which appeared in my c:/tmp. What kind of things does Mutt park there, and where could that big file have come from?? Surely Mutt would not have uncompressed anything without telling me...? Tom -- Dr. Thomas Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Institutszentrum Schloss Birlinghoven mobile +49-171-408-5784 Fraunhofer-Gesellschaft work +49-30-8109-9027 53754 Sankt Augustin, Germany fax +49-2241-144-1408
