Around Wed,Oct 02 2002, at 05:15, paul, wrote: > FYI, yesterday and today I received alerts re new > Tanatos worm, ... > I just received a message at my astro address from > arosner@wxs.nl (is he on seesat or dsat??) > subject: [SBIG] NGC 2997 > size: 71000+kb > I thought it was suspicious due to size but given the > subject I assumed this was a valid attachment and decided > to accept delivery, at which point two independent virus > systems on my computer ID it as Tanatos and immediate froze > and deleted it. BEWARE, this was the best fooler re > "subject" that I have seen to date. > The first one I recieved on monday was from someone I had emailed back in March. (not from this list) The subject and content was very appropriate for the person. The attachment was called: name.zip.scr the thing about that was the zip file if it had been legit would have been a logical attachment to the email. (windows by default hides known extensions, I have mine set to display at work) I use linux at home so it's not a problem. -- roger@efn.org From /usr/bin/fortune: The qotc (quote of the con) was Liz's: "My brain is paged out to my liver." ----------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe from SeeSat-L by sending a message with 'unsubscribe' in the SUBJECT to SeeSat-L-request@lists.satellite.eu.org http://www.satellite.eu.org/seesat/seesatindex.html
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