At 14:51 2000-03-10 -0800, Anthony V. Vitale wrote:
>Hello,
>
> Something very strange is going on. I just received a notification
from my
>e-mail gateway that it intercepted a virus-infected e-mail (containing the
>PrettyPark.Worm virus) that was sent to me from <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
>
> Luckily enough, my e-mail gateway scans for viruses and disinfects
whenever
>possible. SO, I didn't get the e-mail and it didn't do anything bad to my
>computer.
>
> However, upon further examination of the quarantined e-mail, I could see
>that it originally came from "Brendan Choi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>.
Same here, only it was detected by Virus Scan on download from the pop server.
I don't know what kind of virus/trojan this Pretty Park.exe is but it
doesn't look like a voluntary post from this "Brendan Choi" probablly it's
just another type of trojan that infects the e-mail program.
Hummm, let's check... Yes according to NAI web site, this Pretty Park thing is
(very small paste from the NAI site)
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Attached is the file "Pretty park.exe" and in some cases "Pretty~1.exe".
This worm will try to email itself automatically every 30
minutes to all email
addresses listed in the Windows address book associated with
Outlook Express.
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You can get all the story from www.nai.com
So, this is just another victim, not a malicious post...
