It kind of looks like an unsuccessfully sent message. I guess that is why the uninformed open it.
All my users have realized it is a virus, so far, and no one has tried to open it. My mailbox is full of 'what is this' and 'this looks suspicious' emails that contain an infected attachment. Trend is updated and there to save any foolish users. So far so good. Of course this is one small company's email not a big email service. Barbara -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Maggard Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 9:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] New, fast-spreading virus-- filename="document.zip" Stupidity. Plain & Simple. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Evan Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 5:01 PM Subject: Re: [IMail Forum] New, fast-spreading virus-- filename="document.zip" > On 27/01/2004 at 10:24:36, R. Scott Perry wrote: > > > It's the fastest spreading virus we have ever seen. We estimate > > that our > > customers have received over a million copies in the 3 hours since > > the first copy was sent out. Our customers that are running the > > latest beta version of Declude Virus that are using the new > > automatic detection of forging viruses have received copies of the > > virus from over 8,000 unique IPs so far. > > To me, that's the saddest thing of all about this outbreak. It's a > virus which does absolutely no social engineering or trickery at all > (forged and therefore probably unknown sender, meaningless filename, > no body text, no Outlook-exploiting headers), but a whole lot of > people seem to be running it. I'd love to know why. > > Cheers, > Evan > > > To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html > List Archive: > http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ > Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/ To Unsubscribe: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/mailing-lists.html List Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/imail_forum%40list.ipswitch.com/ Knowledge Base/FAQ: http://www.ipswitch.com/support/IMail/
