On Mon, Jan 26, 2004 at 09:41:47PM -0700, Phillip Hellewell wrote: > Did anyone else get an e-mail, subject "Hello", with an attached zip > file named body.zip with a body.pif inside it? > > No doubt it's a virus.
On that note, we have this gem from the Daily Universe:
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> E-mails from University Communications will never be sent with
> attachments, the subject of the e-mail is always set up in a strict
> professional format and there will be a message from Brent Harker in
> the e-mail.
>
> Harker said the e-mails sent by the virus, "don't fit the pattern we
> use."
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Right. So anyone who wants to abuse the system can just follow this
pattern.
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> Laura Workman, a sophomore, majoring in vocal performance, received
> an e-mail containing the virus Monday afternoon.
>
> "I thought it was safe because it was coming from an e-mail list I
> was on," Workman said. "I thought it was something important."
>
> Workman, who opened the attachment not knowing it was a virus, said
> her computer "started freaking out and popping up little messages
> saying that the Norton anti-virus program was sending messages."
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...with a nice little advertisement for Norton products. In my book,
it's nothing more than spam. But I digress...
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> Workman said the virus has "been hitting me a lot," and found out
> the hard way that by opening the virus, it starts sending itself
> from the user's e-mail to the addresses in the user's address book.
>
> "I immediately started telling people [about the virus]," Workman
> said. "I told all my roommates, called people I knew, called my
> brother. People think it [the e-mail] is trustworthy because it's
> from someone that we trust. I'm sure no one even thought it would go
> to University Communications."
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Yet another sad example to show just how broken e-mail currently
is.
Mike
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