At 19:04 +1000 on 10/05/01, Adam wrote:

>Today I got an email from one "Steven Pinette" entitles "Dialog letter
>june". The text of this letter reads:
>
>"
>Hi! How are you?
>
>I send you this file in order to have your advice

That's SirCam.  securityportal.com has good information on it.

>The reason I'm mentioning this on the list, is because I use this email
>address exclusively for list correspondence and eBay sales, so there is a
>fair chance that a malicious user could be harvesting email addresses from

Nope, just someone has you in their address book.  It harvests all e-mail
addys in the address book of Outkook and sends out mail.

See my TWiR columns on LEM from the past three weeks for more SirCam
info/rants/etc.

cl
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