On 11/02/2004, at 22:24 (GMT), tjk, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
[...]
>I've spent the greater part of today repairing the damage from what may
>appear to be a variant of this virus? Actually I have no clue what it
>was.
>It came through an email and neither Nortons, Virex or Disinfect
>caught it during delivery. Came in that typical message marked: mail
>daemon , undeliverable, fatal errors. Was using the OSX mail app.
>Normally I would have just trashed it, but the wife was using the comp
>last night and I figured I would check it out, she's not all that
>computer savy - real bad idea. Opened it, looked at it, didn't
>recognize any of the addy's, so I deleted it. Within minutes files
>started disappearing from the desktop, the apple menu froze, my entire
>user/admin folder was deleted, started getting errors that I didn't
>have privileges / access, and then my HD partition with 10.2.8
>disappeared.
[...]
Did this email have an attachment?
If so, what kind of file was the attchment? exe, zip, etc...to create that kind of
havoc, the email would have to include some kind of exectuable binary. Which, so far,
there's been precious little sign of on U*ix/OS X lately.
BTW, one good reason to not use Mail is that is displays html mail...but programs have
to run to cause that kind of trouble.
Regards,
Phil.
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