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Re: Spam or windows virus? [Was Re: Not read:



On Tue, Apr 09, 2002 at 06:09:41AM +0800, csj wrote:
| Okay, I know it's bad replying to email that's not supposed to be posts.
| But I've been receiving for several days now these little blank beauties
| which on inspection show:
| 
| Content-Type: application/ms-tnef;
| 	name="winmail.dat"
| 
| I supposed I've gotten a little lazy updating my filter rules. But I'm
| just curious as to what precisely these emails are.

They're auto replies (read receipts) from MS Lookout.  That "ms-tnef"
thing is a MS-specific imitation of a VCARD.

-D

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"...In the UNIX world, people tend to interpret `non-technical user' as
meaning someone who's only ever written one device driver."
    --Daniel Pead


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