On Tue, Jan 27, 2004 at 09:33:27PM +1100, Tim Bates wrote: > On Tuesday, January 27, 2004 7:40 PM, Sanjay Chigurupati wrote: > > there seem to be a lot of messages on the list with .zip attachment > > recently. > > The number seems to be increasing. I have a feelin that it might be some > > virus. please be careful > > It is a virus. I got a message from AusCERT (Aussie IT security place) about > it this morning (as in about 12 hrs ago). > http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.novarg.a@mm.html > for more info. And some instances of it are forging "debian-user@lists.debian.org" as the sender. Others are forging "jah.pigeon@ukonline.co.uk"... I received several "original" copies today and nearly as many bounces. If the perpetrator is found a message will go out to the pigeon population calling for a carpet bombing. -- Pigeon Be kind to pigeons Get my GPG key here: http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x21C61F7F
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