On Wednesday, July 23, 2003 Ricardo van Eck stated:

RvE> Hi Paul,

RvE> Wednesday, July 23, 2003, 21:31:19, you wrote:

PC>> -P64VxCAX89qMnM82N91
PC>> Content-Type: audio/x-wav;
PC>>         name=COLSPAN.pif
PC>> Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
PC>> Content-ID: <XqoV4295116z5g353>

PC>> then hundreds of lines of text that looked like this:
PC>> VqQAAMAAAAEAAAA//8AALgAAAAAAAAAQAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
PC>> AAAAAAAA2AAAAA4fug4AtAnNIbgBTM0hVGhpcyBwcm9ncmFtIGNhbm5vdCBiZSBydW4gaW4g
PC>> RE9TIG1vZGUuDQ0KJAAAAAAAAAAYmX3gXPgTs1z4E7Nc+BOzJ+Qfs1j4E7Pf5B2zT/gTs7Tn
PC>> GbNm+BOzPucAs1X4E7Nc+BKzJfgTs7TnGLNO+BOz5P4Vs134E7NSaWNoXPgTswAAAAAAAAAA

PC>> it probably was a spammer, because I don't use the email they sent it
PC>> to, to subscribe to ANY lists.


RvE>   MailWasher flagged you this mail as a Virus. Because of these lines
RvE>   maybe?

more than likely because of the char sequence "name=COLSPAN.pif",
which is also the biggest clue (.pif) to the attachment being a virus
or worm.

-- 
Cheers Yall
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