-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 i don't know much at all about windows, but this spam got past my spam filter and drew my attention. i tested the suspect file in some on-line virus checkers, and they all reported the file as not being a threat. looking at the page that the spam requested (hidden after "@" in the link) i can only think that the file is up to no-good. the original spam, the page that it requests, and the suspicious "exe" file: http://smasher.suspicious.org/tmp/live-virus.tgz live-virus.tgz md5: 42e6edfe1dcbb3e83f3da997014c7858 sha1: 372ef9ce498b3cd23cd7c0c2b404a18f7d1b7771 the TGZ contains: - -rw-r--r-- atom/atom 1606 Jan 29 00:34 2004 spam - -rw-r--r-- atom/atom 1941 Jan 29 00:31 2004 gift-with-headers.html - -rw-r--r-- atom/atom 8704 Jan 28 22:41 2004 updatte.exe updatte.exe was tested on: yahoo-mail http://www.kaspersky.com/remoteviruschk.html http://www.dials.ru/english/www_av/ http://www.rav.ro/scan/indexn.php and they all reported that the file poses no threat. i suspect they're wrong. ...atom _______________________________________________ PGP key - http://smasher.suspicious.org/pgp.txt 3EBE 2810 30AE 601D 54B2 4A90 9C28 0BBF 3D7D 41E3 ------------------------------------------------- fascism: n. A system of government that exercises a dictatorship of the extreme right, typically through the merging of state and business leadership, together with belligerent nationalism. -- The American Heritage Dictionary, 1983 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4 (FreeBSD) iD8DBQFAGKb8nCgLvz19QeMRAuKmAJ9vycEHwtOBNNQ5OkyInneQdb0IqQCff7U2 DdPmn6tznmWijT7S8OMWj6M= =EscX -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
