Virus in attachment

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I have received 1 with the me_naked.avi.pif

It went into the trash bin

Scott

2

At the risk of a 'me too" posting, I got it too...

   Attachment New_Napster_Site.DOC.scr was Quarantined for the following
reasons:
     Virus UNAUTHORIZED FILE was found.

Seems like a different one each time. Is this a new way to disguise viruses?

jm

3

At the risk of a 'me too" posting, I got it too...

   Attachment New_Napster_Site.DOC.scr was Quarantined for the following
reasons:
     Virus UNAUTHORIZED FILE was found.

Seems like a different one each time. Is this a new way to disguise viruses?

I've been noticing an increasing number of spams coming in as infected
with viruses.

I wonder if this is:

1) Accidental, in that their spam mail got unwittingly infected on the
spam-originating host
2) deliberate, in an attempt infect spam victoms
3) delibertate on the part of some mischevious hacker, as an attempt to
flag spammers by infecting them with email viruses, hoping to ruin them
and their spamming exercises by letting victoms' servers bounce back spam
through some anti-virus software they installed.

Hmmm....anti-virus software as a tool against spam. Who woulda thought?

jm

>I have received 1 with the me_naked.avi.pif
>
>It went into the trash bin
>
>Scott

wfms

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[snip]

See Kai's post; the warning clearly points to all the files you all "me
too"d. It isn't spam, just standard using-lousy-OS-and-tools problem.
Don't go out of your way to make it out to be a bigger deal than it is;
someone reading old mail on an infected machine. Clobber it, whine to
the postmaster, whatever, but use Occams razor or "never ascribe to
malice...", etc.

Plonking this thread in fear it will keep going,

Joe