Re:
Tony wrote :
>The best solution I reckon is for originating ISPs to filter emails with
>attachments for virii.
>Mind you we are then getting into privacy issues.
Some of the bigger ISPs filter received mail for standard virus
and spam formats so that their customers just never receive them
Freeserve do for example
martinw
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Just had two of the same ilk (details below) via a yahoogroups.com list.
Neither had any attachment still attached. Goodee for yahoogroups I say.
John in Wales
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At http:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Symatec says:
This worm arrives as an email message with the following
content:
Subject: The subject of the email will be random, and could
be the same as the file name of the attachment in the email.
Attachment: The attachment will be a file taken from the
sender's computer and will have the extension .bat, .com,
.lnk or .pif added to it.
Message: The message body will be semi-random, but will
always contain one of the following two lines (either English
or Spanish) as the first and last sentences of the message.
Spanish Version:
First line: Hola como estas ?
Last line: Nos vemos pronto, gracias.
English Version:
First line: Hi! How are you?
Last line: See you later. Thanks
Between these two sentences, some of the following text
may appear:
Spanish Version:
Te mando este archivo para que me des tu punto de vista
Espero me puedas ayudar con el archivo que te mando
Espero te guste este archivo que te mando
Este es el archivo con la informaci=n que me pediste
English Version:
I send you this file in order to have your advice
I hope you can help me with this file that I send
I hope you like the file that I sendo you
This is the file with the information that you ask for
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