----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe Verdy" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "rajesh chandrakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "Unicode Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 7:05 PM Subject: Re: Unwanted publicity?
> From: "rajesh chandrakar" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > From: "Timothy Partridge" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Sent: Thursday, January 29, 2004 2:45 AM > > Subject: Unwanted publicity? > > > > > > > I was somewhat surprised to see the word Unicode on page 8 of the Metro > > > newspaper (London, UK) today (January 28, 2004). > > > > > > Unfortunately it was in the middle of an article about Mydoom, where it > > says > > > "The message may read 'The message contains Unicode characters and has > > been > > > sent as a binary attachment.'" This was the only one of > > > > I think the sentence "The message contains Unicode characters and has been > > sent as a binary attachement" is a virus file comes as an attachement in > > subject area saying "hi". I got this kind of mail twice was containing > > virus. But I don't know about the newspaper how it has come. > > Was it in a paper speaking about the MyDoom worm currently spreading at > incredible rate in emails (about one third all all emails in Europe are > estimated to contain a copy of this worm, containing this sentence among > others like "Hi"...) > > Other names of this virus are: W32/MyDoom.A, Novarg.A, Shimg.A, Mimail.R > A variant called MyDoom.B also exists but with lower risk. No. not as a news paper report on virus. But as per the Timothy Partridge as saying that the sentence was appeared in New Paper of London, UK. Rajesh > -- > > For information about this worm, considered "High Risk", you may look at > various anti-virus sites, including: > > - Norman Virus Control > http://www.norman.com/virus_info/w32_mydoom_a_mm.shtml > > - Trend Micro PC-Cillin > http://fr.trendmicro-europe.com/enterprise/security_info/virus_encyclopedia. php?s=1&VName=WORM_MYDOOM.A > > - Symantec Norton Anti-Virus > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > ...
