Hello! I received a mail from an italian sender with an exe on it. I'm not sure it is a virus... just a programm that makes "funny" things like re-sending messages, changing the "from" field, etc.
I have not checked the viruses yet, just wanted you to know. DO NOT OPEN ANY "ZIPPED" EXE. David PS: Is that sender from this list? ----- Original Message ----- From: John Allen To: emc-p...@majordomo.ieee.org Sent: Wednesday, December 01, 1999 12:36 PM Subject: VIRUS WARNING RE: R&TTE Directive - Transitional periods Hi Folks This is just to warn you that an automatic reply to my posting last night on the above subject resulting in me - and possibly others - being sent a new virus! The message source address was 'david.cl...@spke.com' Do not open any self-extracting ZIP messages attached to emails from this address!! Luckily it was caught by our corporate firewall, but I then received the following message from the people administering the firewall. Their message is given below for your information. Regards John Allen ------------------------------------------------------------------------ --------------------------- Hi, John. The mail sent to you has been confirmed as a virus by Sophos. It's known as "explorezip-b" By the looks of it, the infection results are similar to many others - you run what looks like a self-unzipping file, and the pc is infected, sending the virus to many others - via the local address book, and in response to each received mail thereafter. Steve Steve Lewis IT Executive Racal Defence Electronics Crawley West Sussex UK --------- This message is coming from the emc-pstc discussion list. To cancel your subscription, send mail to majord...@ieee.org with the single line: "unsubscribe emc-pstc" (without the quotes). For help, send mail to ed.pr...@cubic.com, jim_bac...@monarch.com, ri...@sdd.hp.com, or roger.volgst...@compaq.com (the list administrators).
