Re: ATTN: Pablo Flores (VIRUS WARNING)

En réponse à "H. S. Teoh" <hsteoh@...>:

>
> Furthermore, the content of the email is very suspicious: it appears to
> be
> a truncated copy of a GENUINE message sent to CONLANG a while ago,
> however
> with a long binary attachment of type application/x-msdownload and
> (very
> suspicious) filename "icq200b.exe.exe".
>
I just received today an empty email with just this same file as attachment. It
came from an address which pretended to come from Padraic. Also, in the last
few days, I've received two other empty emails like that, with attachments
with .gif.pif endings (or .pif.gif, I cannot remember exactly). The email
addresses looked familiar, but not exactly. Maybe it came from the same
source... Luckily, I don't use Outlook, but my plain ol' webmail interface
which cannot read show anything fancier than plain text and puts anything which
is not plain text into attachments that don't open automatically. So I'm pretty
safe here. To be sure that I'm not the one infected, I'm right now performing a
full scan of my computer. But since the BugBear virus was already recognised by
my Virusscan, I don't think I was infected (I do at least one scan per day. I
was a little worried that it didn't update its virus definition file lastly,
but I just solved that problem).

We're currently 374 subscribers on the list, and it can come from anybody, even
a lurker. So it is indeed important that everyone on the list checks their
computer. Let's just hope it doesn't come from someone who is NOMAIL at this
moment... Luckily, BugBear is not anymore a very dangerous virus (McAfee just
put it out of their list of dangerous virusses. It is now considered "medium
risk").

Christophe.

http://rainbow.conlang.free.fr

Take your life as a movie: do not let anybody else play the leading role.

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