LOOKOUT - VIRUS (was:Re: Re: (RADIATOR) Radiator accouting on mysql Mexico)

[Hugh Irvine]

Hello Mariano, Hello Everyone -

I received a bunch of these yesterday also, and I posted a similar message 
after receiving some several weeks ago. As Mariano says, just DELETE anything 
suspicious.

thanks 

Hugh


On Wednesday 23 May 2001 23:41, Mariano Absatz wrote:
> Hi People, Hi Faez,
>
> I know it's probably a little late... I'm setting high priority on this
> message, but as every mailer uses different means to do that, I guess
> many people won't notice that.
>
> This morning (or whatever, depending on where in the world you are), I
> received a direct reply to each of the messages I sent to the list in the
> last days.
>
> The format was the same ('My Name' wrote:, then the contents of my
> message indented with '-'s and a "Take a look to the attachment." note in
> the end). The attachment had different names but all simulating being a
> doc or zip file, having, in the end a ".pif" or ".scr" extension. I know
> many mailers, depending on the OS configuration, don't show the extension
> for known extensions, so you might not see it.
>
> The attachment was, obviously, a virus, that my antivirus identified as
> "W32.Badtrans.13312 at mm" and the messages were apparently sent from a
> "Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2919.6700".
>
> Moral is... don't open attachments that you don't know exactly what they
> are EVEN if it seems a reply to a message of your AND it comes from a
> know person... here I don't know Faez, but I guess all of his friends
> received answers to real messages sent to him.
>
> Faez, if you read this, please, clean up you computer.
>
> El 23 May 2001, a las 13:56, Faez Itrat escribió:
> > 'Mariano Absatz' wrote:
> > ====
> > - El 9 May 2001, a las 10:02, Anton Krall escribió:
> > -
> > - > Date:         	Wed, 9 May 2001 10:02:59 -0500
> > - > From:         	Anton Krall <akrall at team.inter.net>
> > - > X-Mailer:     	The Bat! (v1.45) Personal
> > - > Reply-to:     	Anton Krall <akrall at team.inter.net>
> > - > Organization: 	Dir. de Tecnologia - Inter.net Mexico
> > - > To:           	radiator at open.com.au
> > - > Subject:      	(RADIATOR) Radiator accouting on mysql Mexico
> > - <JOKE>¿mysql funciona distinto en Mexico que en ot ...'
> >
> > > Take a look to the attachment.
>
> Mariano Absatz
> El Baby
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