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Re: Fwd: Beware FAKE e-mails being sent as though from list



On Mon, Dec 30, 2002 at 06:00:43PM +0000, Alan Chandler wrote:

| HTML Code follows here, showing the original message in an iframe and using 
| another iframe to hide an executable.

That's the "nimbda" worm.  It forges the From: header using an address
randomly chosen from the infected machine's Windows address book.
Naturally MS Outlook will render the HTML part of the message
including the (non-standard) iframe tag.  The iframe tag causes
Outlook/Windows to execute the attached worm.  The list server bounced
your first message because only the nimbda worm uses an iframe tag in
an email message.

-D

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