The cause of the virus is a web crawler. I suspect that they are pulling
them off of the yahoo archive site.
michka
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Everson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2001 7:39 AM
Subject: OT: some kind of virus?
> I KNOW this isn't the forum for this, but for the last three days
> I've been getting mail from all sorts of people I never heard of,
> which contains some 170K attachment, and the following text:
>
> Hi! How are you?
> I send you this file in order to have your advice
> See you later. Thanks.
>
> And sometimes this text is in Spanish!
>
> I've never been beseiged like this before, and I was wondering if
> there was something nasty going round.
>
> I suspect Sarasvati would appreciate it if you answered me personally
> rather than to the list.
>
>
