Re: [scam: You have received a postcard !]

[Joe Holden]

James S Blankenship wrote:

Duh . . . .exe's are useless on open source, even less
usuable to transmit a virus.  I seem to have missed
that when I wrote that . . .  But no need to be an ass



--- Joe Holden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

about it either; I'm relatively new to the scene. Forgive me if I mistook your meaning.

James S wrote:

This is most likely a virus; the url contains a

.exe: 1.

http://www.felicitacards.xhost.ro/postcard.gif.exe

Whether or not it is

for open source softaware, it's better safe than

sorry.

~Dragon, Interrupted

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: You have received a postcard !
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2006 01:13:08 +0200 (CEST)
From: postcard.com <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: freebsd-chat@freebsd.org


   Hello friend !
   You have just received a postcard from someone

who cares about you!

   This is a part of the message:
   "Hy there! It has been a long time since I

haven't heared about you!

   I've just found out about this service from

Claire, a friend of mine

   who also told me that..."
   If you'd like to see the rest of the message

click [1]here to receive

   your animated postcard!
   ===================
   Thank you for using www.yourpostcard.com 's

services !!!

   Please take this opportunity to let your

friends hear about us by

   sending them a postcard from our collection !
   ==================

References

   1.

http://www.felicitacards.xhost.ro/postcard.gif.exe

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Virii, so clever, yet so stupid at the same time.

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I apologise, I didn't intend it to come across like that, I was just referring to the fact that they're mailing a non-windows mailing list.

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