Bill Peifer wrote:
> I've just noticed that my posts to PDML today have a message appended
> telling me that some small (a few dozen bytes) UU-encoded file was stripped
> by the listserver de-MIME software.
The message I'm seeing is (from the very message to which I'm replying):
> [demime removed a uuencoded section named winmail.dat which was 57 lines]
Winmail.dat is some strange Outlook silliness that's apparently
like some sort of e-business-card that only Outlook can read.
Not using Outlook (but corresponding with some other Outlook
users), I've never figured out what combination of Preferences
settings and circumstances causes it to be appended sometimes
and not others. Nobody I've spoken to about it has been able
to turn it off intentionally.
So this doesn't sound like a worm.
> Also found out that a colleague of mine
> on the other side of the country has received a mysterious attachment at the
> bottom of each of two e-mails I sent to him last night and today. The
> displayed filename of the attachment seems to be the first eight characters
> of the e-mail subject line. Looks like I have a virus.
This, on the other hand, does sound suspicious. :-(
-- Glenn, who is peeking in on
recent messages but falling
further behind on reading the
PDML lately. A few days ago
I punted 4000+ messages that
I don't think I'm ever going
to have time to catch up on.
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