Re: Take care, there a nasty out there

Following up on Norman Dunbar, 11 Mar 2003:

> I've just received my fifth email (today) entitled 'check out this new
> patch from microsoft' with an exe file attached. This one seems to have
> harvested this list for victims as all the names on the 'to' field are
> very familiar names from this list. Our virus scanner picked it up and
> binned the exe file attached.

W32 virus. Yahoo's AVcheck picked it up. Been doing the rounds for about two weeks now... Annoying, but harmless if you don't open anything.

>
> Just a warning, but I suspect that no-one on this list would be silly
> enough to believe that Microsoft sends patches from a Hotmail account -
> I certainly didn't, but someone out there has done :o(

You bet...

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Nuno Souto
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