-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 hmm,. I've seen that bug before. its a known windows trojan that scans for e-mail addresses and clips of e-mails and hijacks your box to send out via its own smtp engine. guess I'll be expecting a copy to land here as well. fortunately, these e-mails have virtually no effect on a linux box.
Technomage On Wednesday 23 July 2003 10:15 am, Oliver Schwartz wrote: > Hi, > > in the last two days I received two emails with faked addresses that > claimed to be sent via sane-devel (but in fact were not). Both emails > contained a .pif file which, I assume, contains a virus. DO NOT OPEN > THIS FILE. > > The sender names were taken from SANE-Devel (Martin Kho, Henning > Meyer-Geinitz). The email address of the sender, however, was faked > (see attached mail below). To make the mail look more authentic it > also gives a small quote from an previous email to sane-devel. > > I don't think such mails can be prevented, but, as always, you should > take extra care when opening attachements, even from people you > recognize from the mailing list. > > -Oliver > - -- I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed, or numbered! My life is my own - No. 6 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.7 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE/Hs/xn/usgigAaLcRAjMBAJ9iCZzQdurepLSEJI6VWdjlTYNoqgCeLJWi aJZt7NztTdUpztnb86ZxLno= =+7mg -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
