Re: [PLUG] My father was the smartest

["Arthur S. Alexion" <arthur@alexion.com>]

This one has been around for a while.  Can't remember the name, but I've 
gotten it at least 10 times. (never infected since all mail comes into a 
linux or Palm client.)

It goes into Outlook (of course) grabs an existing message, names itself 
after an existing attachment (to look authentic) but with a windows 
executable extension (bat, com or exe, hidden by default windows 
settings), and sends itself to a prior addressee.  It often works 
because the message seems to be coming from someone you know, with an 
appropriate looking attachment.

I'll remember the name and pass it on.

art

Joseph B. Welsh wrote:


> That's what I thought.
>
> I checked at symantec anti-virus center and couldn't find any references
> to this mail or it's attachment.
>
> I'm going see if anybody seen this one before..
>
> Joe
>
>
> On Wed, 2001-11-07 at 11:03, Mike Leone wrote:
> > > What the heck is this?
> >
> > Looks like a virus attachment from an infected Windows PC. It's a 69K 
> > ".bat"
> > file - sort of a Windows shell script, if you can believe the name.
> >
> > > Is someone trying to spread a windows virus on a linux mailing list?
> >
> > Inadvertantly, I'm sure.
> >
> >
> >
> >
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